Friendly Robot Overlord

This site runs on a modified version of blosxom. One of the modifications was to combine it with pollxn, so you can leave comments. I'm also using a couple of plugins - flavourdir, hide, icons, markdown, static_file and timezone. The licenses for these files I believe allows me to use them all here without providing the source code, but I don't have any reason to hide it so you can download it here (bear in mind that this will probably end up out of date pretty quickly). If you don't get it, or it is really out of date, then email me and I'll fix it.

What does this combination of software do?

• Comments submitted are put into a subversion repository, so they can easily be removed, but keeping a history.
• When there is only one story on a page, all the comments for it are shown.
• Config stuff for pollxn and blossxm are merged.
• Dates in coments are shown relative to the time of the story, rather than absolute time.
• I've probably introduced some subtle bugs and security issues.
• Lets me write in markdown which is a well designed text formatting language.

The icon graphics for different categories were done in Inkscape, and really were just added so the pages looked a bit more interesting, but hopefully they will be useful as a way to quickly filter out the stuff that you don't like reading. If for some reason you want an svg file of any of the icons, then email me... but I'm sure you can do better.

My philosophy for this site is that when there isn't a feature I want, it will be hacked in. None of the code I'm writing is particularly elegant here (and at least one hack is just horrible), but it seems to fit with the blosxom style.