Changes

Well, Zope was fun and all that, but I started to dislike storing my texts in the database, so I moved everything to blosxom — and now there's a new Fading Memories site that will replace the Zope site some time in the future.

Introduction

Both in order to finally learn Zope, and to keep track of what I've read (I reached a state of acute shame when I discovered I had bought a new Chaucer when I already had two copies), I thought it would be a good idea to transmute Squishdot (see the nice logo at the bottom of these pages) into a book-review and comment thingy. So there.

What do I read?

That's a good point. My tastes are fairly catholic, but I've created a few main categories:

• The Stack — about what I'm buying, reading or rejecting
• Mystery books — detectives, thrillers, modern or historical
• Classics — anything pre-modern, in my opinion.
• Reference Works — dictionaries, cookbooks, companions and compendiums
• Mainstream — anything that's not classifiable
• Coding, hacking and programming — I like Python
• Fantasy and SF — but I'm a picky reader, possibly because this is what I write myself.
• Linguistics — my first love and life.
• Literature — anything that's unclassifiable but better than mainstream and not so old as classics.

I might be adding author and title indexes and stuff, but for now, I can only advise you to use the search function

Inspiration

It's a bit silly, and only goes to show how little I move with the times that I discovered that my idea was far from original. As you can see from the obligatory list of links on the left, there are quite a few book logs, book review sites or whatever they call themselves out there (frankly, as long as the reviews are done by one or two people, I don't see the difference).

Software

Update: I hacked Squishdot into something closer to a booklogging product, BookDot. Download it now!

I'd like to get into Zope, I really do. But what with writing stuff myself — I'm working on the second novel set in Andal, hacking on Kura, earning my daily crust and reading the books, I've had singularly little time to work on transforming Squishdot into a real book logging Zope app. Which is a pity, since most people appear to be making do with regular blogging software and handcoded index pages.