Rocknerd is in da howse.

Slash is such a pig of a thing. It's industrial strength and stable. It runs Slashdot.

But altering anything ... 98% of anything you need to do can be done through the web interface - but finishing the last two percent properly requires you to do anything from uploading a file to precisely the right place to hand-editing the Perl. (c.f. Linux Airlines and the Seat-HOWTO.) A right bugger to customise. And you can't not customise it, 'cos it's so bloody ugly out the box. Thank goodness blarglefiend is an accomplished sysadmin and machete-wielding Perl hacker. Not to mention his excellent hosting contacts.

(DOWN with table-based layout! UP with CSS! Gecko browsers are now more popular than Netscape 4, damn it! Standards!)

The content is progressing wonderfully. Slash is entirely composed of bells and whistles. People are using the journal feature. People are leaving comments. Having no outlet for a couple of weeks left both Ben and I full of interesting things to write about ...

Today I go on a Grand Day Out. And do what I should have done earlier this week, which is to buy a prepaid SIM and shove it in the spare phone we have here. If I find the old one, Liz can have this SIM, and if I don't find the old one, I can.