I’m not sure how I ever became both lazy and particular.<\/p>\n
For a guy who loves efficiency, I really do make things difficult for myself. Rather than let Movable Type handle all the details of publishing my sites, I instead code my interface to the database backend. When Musicwhore.org<\/a> was more of a monstrosity<\/a>, I could justify the extended code.<\/p>\n These days, I’m just set in my ways. I don’t want a bunch of static files sitting on my web space. I should know better — serving up static files is much more merciful on the processor than forcing it query a database and build content on the fly.<\/p>\n So in trying to make things simpler, I’ve made them more complex.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I spent the entire day setting up Rewrite directives in my .htaccess<\/tt> files so that I could get a uniform URL structure for all my sites. That way, musicwhore.org\/entry\/nnnn<\/em><\/tt> and gregbueno.com\/entry\/nnnn<\/em><\/tt> both behave the same way — they deliver the intended content. And I didn’t have to rename files or recode any queries.<\/p>\n It did, however, require a time-consuming, Herculean effort of template editing. I didn’t stop with just weblog content. The Musicwhore.org Archive artist directory<\/a> has a new directory structure now, as does the Eponymous 4 projects section<\/a>.<\/p>\n Once established, I could set something up I’ve been wanting to for some time — a unified RSS feed<\/a>. That’s right folks — you can get all<\/em> of my web sites in one feed now. I’ve got so many sites, not even my closest friends know all of them. Now they have no excuse. Let me spell it out for you:<\/p>\n