I finally bit the bullet and went through the necessary leg work to get the site upgraded to the latest Django trunk. The fun included adding the new admin stuff and figuring out the newly redesigned comments system.

If you notice anything odd, let me know and I'll get it straightened out. And now back to our regularly scheduled inactivity.

After trying to figure out why Illustrator CS3 kept crashing when saving files, I finally turned up this bit of information that pointed me in the right direction. It looks like if you have your Print Spooler service on Windows XP disabled when attempting to save, Illustrator dies.

One of the posters on the linked thread mentions setting your default printer to Adobe PDF if you still have problems when your printer is off (but ...

I have made the source for the CMS/Blog that powers this site available on Google Code in the hopes that someone out there will find it useful. It's not very well commented at this time, but it's fundamentally sound code and serves as a decent example of things. This is mostly to help make it easier for me to track revisions, but there's no harm in GPL'ing it.

The source ...

Under harassment from friends and a professor or two, I finally re-designed my page. You will notice a new look, and some extra functionality floating around. The back-end is now Django instead of static HTML. This will allow me to make some of my tinkerings available for view on here.

Things will be in a state of flux for a while as I get the kinks worked out. If you notice any oddities, feel free ...