Yeah, so I'm working on it, finally. It was really hard to get CSS positioning to work with both IE and Mozilla with these float-things. I wish CSS was a bit more friendly to web layout, it's really hard to get two boxes to line up side-by-side. I've finally got it now, but IE still uses tables. How long did that take, a full week of nights beating on CSS over the course of 6 months? Yick.

I think the color scheme still needs work, it's kinda depressing. And we need content, of course. But I'm really happy with our use of SSI to make page maintenace a snap.

We both use Gentoo Linux as our primary operating system. One of it's deficiencies is a lack of a good configuration file management tool. I've tried out both etc-update and update-conf but neither one seemed to have the featureset that I was looking for. Thus I'm slowly writing my own. To summarise, I'm keeping all of the config files under Subversion and keeping a baseline image of the file on a branch. Then when updates come up, I can just merge the deltas into the mainline and avoid the vast majority of manual merge errors. Keeping things in Subversion also makes it easier to switch out sets of config files to help in testing updates to critical packages. This is one utility I want badly enough that I'll probably finish it.

Like most geeks I start far more projects then I ever finish. Here's a short list of things I've played around with but will probably never complete:

• PMud - Embedding Perl into a MUD client.
• DAACS - A authentication and access control system. I've never been happy with most central authentication systems I've used, but I didn't have the motivation to get very far with my own.