Copia

Man. PyBlosxom is mad sweet, but it takes a lot of hacking to get it properly tricked out. Just when I got trackback working here on Copia, I decided to try autoping.py a shot, and it broke into several pieces as soon as I tried to use it. I fixed the first, second and third traceback before giving up. Clearly it needs even more work than trackback.py did, and I'm still limited by PyBlosxom newbeing.

Good thing DJ Revolution is playing right now. Keeps me in a Colorado Kind mood no matter what. I guess I know what some people feel like when they make their first foray into 4Suite. Well, I guess I've always known.

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Ted Leung's trackback.py module for pyblosxom is pretty badly broken. Hard to imagine it ever worked at all, but I had to have another full immersion into PyBlosxom plug-in land to try to figure fix it. I got some ways by myself beefore I went to seek help on the 'Net and found Eric Gaumer 's message and blog entry with some of the fixes I'd figured out, and some others. I also found some improvements from Steven Armstrong. In a similar thread, I learned from Joseph Reagle about this useful Web page for sending trackback pings.

Ted Leung seemed receptive to the fixes and said he had an update version of trackback.py, but I couldn't find it, so I just made the changes myself. I've posted the updated file here (trackback.py), in case anyone wants it. I'll probably remove the file once I see a fixed version in the spot pointed to by the PyBlosxom registry.

BTW, Eric's a fellow snowboarder, and he's scored a trip to the Mammoth this year. Sweet. I wonder how many other Pythonistas shred.

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