| Fooling
Around with It
Maybe
you can tell me. Maybe you know somebody who can do this, or this
is such a simple thing you can tell me how, or point me to a URL that tells
me how. Or maybe by just writing this, I will begin the process of
finding out how for myself.
I would very much like a CGI that lets me update this thing wham bam from
the net. Smoothly. Lemme tell you the steps I go through to
make a journal entry and maybe that will help some.
1. I open up connected.htm.
2. I change the date to today's date.
3. Notice how the back and ahead links point to entry numbers?
I increase both those numbers by one. So for this one, I changed
"back" from c18.htm to c19.htm and "ahead" from c20.htm to c21.htm.
4. I delete the entry title and enter the new one.
5. I delete the entry body and type out a new one.
6. I usually remember to spellcheck it.
7. I save connected.htm.
8. Then I save that same page as whatever number occurs between the
"back" and "ahead" entry numbers. So this page will get saved as
c20.htm.
9. I upload both connected.htm (the "current" entry) and the numbered
entry (the "archive" copy) via FTP.
This
way, all my links are correct (except of course any "ahead" links on the
current entry, since the future isn't here yet) with the minimum amount
of fuss. Well, I want less fuss. And I want to do it from remote
locations. I want something like the quick and dirty I constructed
before out of a guestbook, only with greater capability for making the
adjustments I listed above. I almost, almost, started a blog
here yesterday, but balked at handing over FTP info for a server that is
not in my possession and does not belong to me. Since it contains
other people's livelihoods on it, it didn't seem right for me to create
any vulnerabilities.
Hm.
I decided to reactivate my Geocities
account and experiment with putting a blog there.
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