Mr. Watson, come here; I need you.

You know, it seemed like I had AfterWords a lot more under control before I actually started using it. Now that I’m actually using it, though, I’m noticing more and more cases that aren’t handled, things that need to be fixed or changed, and lots of stuff that just doesn’t exist.

Such is price of pre-alpha quality software, I suppose. I remember when the Journaling Script was like this.

Anyway, I’ve made a few changes, most notably to allow for comments. Really basic stuff at this point; the form isn’t even really very pretty, but it works, and that’s what’s important, right?

I’ve also written some bridge code to allow some plugins meant for Movable Type and Wordpress to be used in AfterWords. John Gruber’s Markdown and SmartyPants plugins are available in AfterWords variants (I’ll submit a patch to him whenever I get the remainder of AfterWords ready), and Automattic’s Akismet anti-commentspam plugin is also available.

Which, incidentially, I’m using here to (hopefully) prevent comment spam from becoming a huge problem. Of course, it also helps that I’m on a custom journal management system, and that there’s very little reason to write a spambot to target this journal. It’s not as though anyone reads it yet anyway.

I’m also using Markdown here. Eventually I’ll have a generalized ‘filter chaining’ tool that will allow me to create a new filter using Markdown and SmartyPants, but that’s for another time.

Home Is A Different Story

Things have been crazy at home lately. Michelle and I built a five-by-ten foot garden box to install in the back yard; we’ll be planting vegetables of all sorts. We’ve also got a smaller box that will have a raspberry bush in it; Justin has been pestering us for ages about it.

Ryan is getting four teeth in at once, and he is suitably crabby for it. Baby Girl is kicking Michelle more often, and occasionally hard enough for me to feel. I’m going to have a daughter — that’s just crazy.

Michelle and I are also addicted to Sudoku, the puzzle craze that’s sweeping the nation. We’ve gone through like ten different books, and we’ve resorted to printing puzzles from the internet. We do them at the same time to see who can finish them the fastest.

I must go; I have to kick Michelle’s ass in sudoku and then get some sleep.