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The Rants, Raves, and Rituals of Matthew Sackman
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

New Site

Once again, this site has changed. Some things may not yet be working - RSS feeds for example, and some links may be broken too. I got fed up with WordPress, mainly due to the amount of comment spam that was going on. So there are now no comments. If you actually want to comment on something, I'm fairly sure you'll be able to work out how to do that.

Also, I decided that I dislike the amount of computation that goes into producing a single page with WordPress. It strikes me that if you think about the energy use, or just the CPU cycles, regenerating every page without a caching layer for each page request is going to be quite a lot of work. So this one, hand written, is entirely static. I have some programs that I've written (in Haskell, obviously!) that help me generate the HTML from templates (they do a few other things too) but other than that, it's all static. And by using XML HTTP Request (err, AJAX in other words), I cut down further on the volume of data transferred. Yes folks, that's my excuse for gratuitous use of AJAX!

Permalinks are there - just click on the title of each entry. I've made sure this degrades nicely in less feature-rich browsers and I've even tested it in Internet Explorer. Enjoy!