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Reprise: Standing in the Users World ... And Not

Orcmid: Standing in the User's World ... And Not.  Rather than feeding out updates of the same May 10 lament, I will bracket that monolog with this close-out entry.

So, Blogger Reloaded is challenging, especially with the sudden change in document-organization model, and I have managed to wrestle it into submission.  The posts prior to 2004-05-02 are the same they always were and I am not going to touch them with Blogger any more.  Ever.  Starting with May 2, the posts are following the new organization.

I am still learning how to organize entries so that they and their comments fit together into some sort of cohesive body of material.  The chasm from 3-by-5 card blogclippings to organized writing and presentation has not been crossed; now there's room to experiment and see how to add more sanity.

I organized my normalization of the Blog on the web site rather than in the blog. That worked better than to use the blog as a place to think things through, and I will continue to use that approach.  For starters, I used a simple job jar and diary technique that I have come to love.  And I have enough scaffolding to keep this material surrounded.  I'm even maintaining my template files in FrontPage and, as for all of my web site material, I'm using VSS integration with IIS and FrontPage extensions for configuration management.  That's not always evident because the files posted from Blogger don't show their checked-in identity, although they are all checked-in on a regular basis.

I'm satisfied for now.
posted by Dennis at 5/11/2004 09:53:49 PM