My Mom has whipped up some cafepress items with the definition of kief, as per my etymology page. These are sure to become a hit with hipsters around the world. Mugs, t-shirts, bags, bbq aprons, and, sure to be a top seller, "Etymology of Kief" throw-pillows. Get your Kief Swag today!!

Doh! I got an email from Jeff Winkler saying the URL to my RSS feed was busted - easily fixed by putting the absolute path in the template ("/index.xml" rather than "index.xml"). But then Brett pointed out that the feed itself was broken. Argh! The problem is that I don't use aggregation, so I just plopped in the default Movable Type templates and ignored it, and even though I had found and fixed problems with the permalinks on the other pages, it didn't occur to me to check the feed templates. An example of uneaten dogfood.

It's fixed now, and I took the opportunity to fix another problem I knew about, in that I had permalinks pointing to the wrong place. I'm using MT "category archiving" to build the page for Syslog, Turkey, etc. because this lets me use a single template for each category: otherwise I would have to make a separate "index" template for each one. This is an example MT's inflexibility, it's locked into a very specific model for website structure, and doing anything different requires some gymnastics.

So the permalinks were all pointing to the category pages, which were starting to get too big. Now I've changed permalinking to point to the date-based archives, which means my posts about Unix configuration and Java development tools will be rubbing shoulders with posts about learning Turkish, but there you go.

This will break permalinks that had been previously posted on other sites pointing here, but everything else should be groovier now.

Another change I made is putting links to both versions of RSS (or whatever) in the sidebar: the old RSS 0.91, and the newer RDF/RSS 1.0. I don't have any stake in the great RSS debate currently raging, these are just the templates that came with Movable Type. Hopefully someone will make a template for RSS 2.0, and I can offer that too.