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Throwback: When Is Programming Mathematics, and Vice Versa?  This entry is part of an experiment.  I don't have a comments mechanism, and I don't have a TrackBack for this site, so I am going to fake it (which is why it is a Throwback).  I have turned off my site feed for starters because I must perform an important test.  I am going to post this along with everything else in my backlog, and then I am going to move it and some other items.  The moved items will get new permalinks.  What I want to confirm is that nothing that has not moved gets a new permalink.  So endeth the first reading.

[later: 2004-05-05-23:03 -0700 I am moving this back from 2004-05-17:53:47 to as far earlier than the entries on this subject that I can get without changing the sequence of any others.  So endeth the second reading.]

[still later: 2004-05-05-23:36 -0700 It worked.  This entry is inserted in the middle and none of the permalinks of other entries have been impacted.  It is clear that it works better for me to have blogs be more like wikis or sites that let me name the pages and choose how to spot things inside my blog folders.  That has a serious ripple effect on archives and indexes and the current blog front page, but having to worry about non-interference with permalinks is not cutting it for me.  There's more to handle in designing some components for smoother episodic web publishing.  This is all half- (no tenth-)baked and I will stop now.  The big challenge of the moment is to restore my feed, since Blogger blanked out all the fields when I turned it off, so I will have to recover the configuration from somewhere.  So endeth the third reading.]

[latest of all: 2004-05-10-21:58] I am giving up on all of this throwback stuff, as well as adding titles and headings to groups of entries.  The suddenly-replaced Blogger implementation has a different posting model with entries kept in individual files along with their comments.  This changes things.  Once I overcome my irritation at being blind-sided and having some of my archiving corrupted as part of this change, I will be able to see the advantages of this approach for scaling into article form, repurposing blog content and so on.  But for now, the throwback, flashback, and related experimentation is at an end.]
posted by Dennis at 5/4/2004 09:05:46 AM