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It’s not that I like the idea that much, but I’ll write a bit on the blog and its software. The main reason for this are the footnotes…

So I’m removing them. The main reason to add them was that without thinking very seriously, I remembered how useful were to me when I wrote some other documents (like my lecture at the LUG-BG seminar, 2004 or “How to write a course paper for the Network Security course”), but I didn’t really think about the medium where I used them. The footnotes are pretty useful when you can see in one glance them and what they refer to, which is pretty hard in this case – but I don’t intend to add a paginating plugin for wordpress, to make the blog look like a book (even as it sounds pretty interesting).
(Because of such reason I myself hate the footnotes that are at the end of the book or the chapter – because of this I had to read Umberto Eco with two bookmarks – one to know where I am in the text and one for the footnotes. It’s better if they go from one page to the next, instead of having to turn to the end a back all the time)
(the other way would be to find an environment, which allows writing in more than one dimension, this way the things in brackets could be perpendicular to the stuff they’re related to)

Otherwise, let’s mention the rest of the additions:

MyTwitter – shows my last 5 tweets. I wonder if I should just use some micro-blog part there, but for the moment I’ll keep it.

Live preview of comments – mostly because of the request of Niki Bachiyski, I don’t really have a problem with that, if someone is annoyed by it, I’ll look for a way to be disabled by the user.

Subscribe to comments – extremely helpful (first seen again at Bachiyski :) ), I’ve always hated when I had to go back to some blog to see if I someone had replied to a comment of mine. In most cases I even forget that I’ve commented somewhere…

We all know Akismet.

And, of course, a ton of hacks in the code itself, like the support for two languages (pretty ugly, but works for me), some modifications of the tag cloud and I-can’t-remember-what-else (and I’m too lazy to diff, because I don’t really remember which was the last version that I had updated to). My CSS was written with the help of a lot of people that understand this kind of stuff (not like me, who just changes something and hits reload to see the result).

So, how the hell could I decide to use someone else’s platform, that won’t even allow me to touch the code. It’s a completely different thing to roll up your sleeves and start hacking someone’s beautiful code…

And something a bit off-topic – I feel that I’ve started writing worse and worse. Seems to me that it’s because I write mostly in the evening after work, when my head is not really there, or Saturday, when I’m too lazy, or Sunday, when I have a hangover from Sunday and feel even lazier. I should definitely do something about it.

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