Hey, I know it's been a little quiet for the past few days, but I've been coding into the wee hours finishing the back-end of a new content publishing system using php4, mySQL, and some interesting data structures I've worked out.

The upshot is that it's going online today. You won't notice much a change at first. The HTML al looks (pretty much) the same, but the first new feature is a paged log entry system, so the home page only shows the last week's posts, and you can jump to archived months. This will drop the page size from 220K (including graphics) down to around 26K.

Now that the hard part is done, I'll be able to add a lot of site-wide functionality ('what site? It's only one page!' "Soon...") quickly and consistantly.

The best part of the new system is that the UI could be completely changed on a site-wide level with only a few changes in code. While I won't be flipping the UI around all the time on this site, it should prove to be an excellent foundation for usability experiments, especially some work I'm doing on adaptive personal user interfaces.