Well, it’s been a year since I started this thing. My intention was to play with technology, and I’ve certainly succeeded in that! As with many things, this toy has taken on a life of its own; it’s kinda fun writing about the things I find interesting (even if nobody else is reading them :-). In the process I’ve met some new, interesting people, an unexpected bonus…

I started with Movable Type, but the “technology” list has expanded quite a bit:

• Apache (1 and 2)
• IPv6
• mod_ssl and certificate based access controls
• Python
• PHP
• XHTML, CSS, and friends
• MySQL
• mod_gzip
• Wiki

The server was upgraded by an order of magnitude (something I never blogged about, apparently), thanks to Greg Wilson and so I’ve been playing with other related software:

• tomcat for the students
• mailman to make it easier for my users to run their own mailing lists
• postfix originally because it plays well with Mailman, additionally for its anti-spam features
• squirrel mail webmail for me and my users
• courier imapd because it uses maildir, which makes squirrel much faster

This is fun. I think I’ll keep it going for another year…

Update in 2025: I’m fascinated by which parts of this are still running, 22 years later, and which have been discarded or replaced. I’ll have to write an update post.