A flurry of posts again from someone haven’t heard much from lately, (2006-ish) and the forum for it has noticed the return of Dean as well. Used the Textpattern software as a blogging tool based on his text generator for a couple years myself, and later as a CMS for a local group until they wanted more extensibility and it was easier to switch them over to Website Baker, which they are still using.

Anyhoo, there’s some good stuff coming off his keyboard often and linkyness to go with it including this recent interesting shell command history meme:
mark-laptop:~$ history|awk ‘{print $2}’|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head

    162 sudo
     25 cd
     13 kdesu
      8 calc
      7 emerald
      4 wget
      4 ls
      4 locate
      4 compiz
      3 tar

With all the wonderful Compiz and Emerald GUI things happening, seems I still spend a fair amount of time on a terminal to root around this new machine. Reminds me that I wanted to redo the back-end of this blog too and get off the WordPress wagon, and get back to some basics and hash over the pros and cons of using a relational database for the content or other means. Seem to recall the fastest way on Apache to stitch content together regardless of horsepower was using server side includes, so may start there and see where it takes me.