It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been distracted by work and by a simple social-networking experiment.
I’ve owned the laceys.org domain since 1998, but I haven’t done much with it. This weekend I pointed the domain at my web host, Rimu Hosting, updated the VirtualHosts table in Apache, and installed a Wiki. In particular I installed PmWiki with the FixFlow skin.
The intent is that members of my immediate family will flesh out the site with information about our parents, our neighborhood, and themselves. I’m hoping that it doesn’t become a dry recitation of facts, but a place for stories and anecdotes. But that’s really besides the point, as I expect that only a dozen people in the world will be interested in reading it, and six of them are me and my five siblings. The real goal is simply to get the family to participate on a project. I suspect it will be a spectabular failure as I am the only one of us with any technical bent at all. Honestly, on a scale of zero to ten, where, say, Ken Thompson is a ten, and my mother, who literally refuses to be within a few feet of a computer, is a zero, my brother and sisters probably average out to about one. However, wikis aren’t that hard, and PmWiki is nice, so we’ll see.
But mostly, I guess I just did this for grins.
Oh, and I locked down the site so that only my family members can edit it. I did this with the UserAuth plugin to PmWiki.