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This site runs a custom-built content management system that I wrote when I was teaching myself Rails.  As it was a learning project, the code was full of bugs and suffered from generally poor design.  This afternoon I ripped out the guts and bashed out some new code, essentially from scratch.  The goal is reduce the ridiculous number of 500 errors that was occuring because I was...

Well, as anyone looking over the inactivity on this blog will have quickly figured out, the Ubermann sleep schedule did not work for me.  I couldn't keep my eyes open; eventually I just crashed again in the most horrible way, and I realised it was making my day-to-day existence extremely painful.  It's a difficult schedule to hold while attempting to get situated in a new...

The icewhistle reblog is now found at http://www.icewhistle.com/reblog/ instead of the old location. Please note the distinct RSS feeds for reBlog and other posts. I plan to add more features to this CMS, like searching, in the next few weeks.

There is now an RSS feed available for the icewhistle.com blog posts (including these announcements).

 Coming soon will be an aggregated feed containing these posts and all of the other web projects (blindness, reblog, etc.).

I don't really need another blog as I already have a tumblelog and a reblog, plus I use Wordpress installs to keep notes I jot down on books and films, and also for the postcard art that I occasionally do.  Yet, here we go with another one, because I've been playing around with designing this content management system for icewhistle.com and a blog is of course a crucial part of a...