m. c. de marco

Via Pyr-o-mania: Wordle is

a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

Pyr blogger Matthew Sturges Wordled his novel.

The site was down for about 20 minutes for a Drupal upgrade. The management apologizes for any inconvenience.

I became a de facto member of the 1654 Society a while back when it merged with another group to which I apparently belonged. (I don’t quite recall the details now.) As a consequence, I got a complimentary copy of Conversations in the mail this week, with a link to the IJII’s website. I had the feeling when I first looked at it that it was a fellow drupal site, but I wasn’t certain until I signed up and saw the telltale tabs on the registration page.

National Novel Writing Month is imminent, so I logged into my nanowrimo account today. I found the login screen suspiciously familiar; the small print admits that the site is based on drupal. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem much faster this year than in previous years, and the forums don’t appear to be searchable. All the more time to write…

Service may be interrupted today as I attempt to upgrade the site software.

Beyond the obvious new theme, all formerly broken stuff should now be working, including search, login, and new user registration.

I’ve upgraded the blog/home page to Drupal 4.7.x and a speedier server, but I didn’t upgrade my old home-cooked Drupal template. For the moment I’m using MetaTheme by Ken Collins instead. Play with the buttons at the top of the page to see what makes it meta.

Some other features of the site may be down for maintenance for a while longer, especially the news aggregator. The management apologizes etc., etc.

After some extended technical difficulties, my kind host, Paradox Inc., is back online.