Modern Rosetta Stone

In order to keep languages alive, or at least understandable to future archaeologists, a group named the Rosetta Project has started making micro-etched disks with over 1000 languages written in teeny-tiny writing. Very interesting article on Wired.

Weblogging stuff

I installed Movable Type this weekend, just to play with (Greymatter refused to install and run), then I went ahead and installed PostNuke as well.

They're both pretty slick, and they make a consistent site and all that. But, I think the combination of Dreamweaver for site development and Livejournal embedded into my main index page is doing pretty well for me.

For those who maintain both an LJ and a self-hosted weblog, why? Please explain to me why you have both, especially those who seem to post the exact same things in each. Why not just use LJ embedded in your site? It's one line of HTML.

Seriously, I'm curious as to the reasons folks have for maintaining two different weblogging tools. Entertain me.

Web Design

Since I've been looking at all these other content management systems lately, and even wrote an essay on why LJ is better than Blogger, it occurs to me that the vast majority of CMS-based sites have a navigation column along the left side of the page. Since I've got the navbar as a DHTML-based menu system on the top of the page, I don't fit in. But, the page ends up looking rather wide with the single-column format.

So, I ask you, my adoring public...

[Poll #72787]

Site stuff

Because some people think my background graphics for my site are BORING, I've revamped it a bit. If you view the site with a Mozilla-based browser (Netscape 6.x or Mozilla are the two biggies), or with IE 5.5 or greater on a Mac, you'll see it exactly as intended. If you use IE for Windows (any version) or Opera (any version), you'll see a slightly wrong version, but still readable.

Is the background boring or is it interesting enough?