Graceful Exits

After a bit of a struggle I’ve managed to get wireless networking at home. Unfortunately, my first attempts to test the connectivity to the rest of the world coincided with the power outages at Telehouse, a “bullet-proof” ISP that too many people rely on, including ADSL services, the BBC website, Nominet, some DNS servers….
I have [...]

I’m looking for a simple website management system (not necessarily a CMS, just something that can handle templates and a consistent look and feel) and an even simpler blogging system. The latter would have to be in PHP, but I’m easy either way otherwise.
Does anyone have any recommendations?

I couldn’t find this on the Goggle, so: if your Coldfusion template occasionally furnishes you with the unhelpful, lineless error:
can’t load a null

then this might be caused by the following. You may be trying to compile a function using something like this code:

<cfset bar = “something”>
<cffunction name=”foo”>
    <cfargument name=”bar” default=”#bar#”>
</cffunction>

At the point of trying to interpret [...]

A number of posts are currently in stasis waiting for me to actually finish them, but I thought it was worth mentioning the selection of my most recent Flickr photos that now graces my homepage. While the rest of that page awaits serious styling and content work, I’ve dilly-dallied by creating this bit of eye-candy.
The [...]