Singularity on the Plane

(Written on 10:15 PM 9/3/2006 GMT+7)

Because my PC isn’t connected to the internet, I write blog entries at home and upload it later (usually every Tuesday and Saturday). I write the entries on a file called boab.html, then post the whole content as a single Wordpress blog entry. Therefore, each blog entry I write at home will actually be a part of a containing Wordpress blog entry. Hence BOAB, or Blog In A Blog.

Here’s the illustration:

As shown, this greatly simplifies the posting process because I only have to post once. However, it is obvious that the downfall outweights the convenience. Because a blog entry with BOABs actually talks about more than 1 topic:

• Referencing a particular BOAB within a post is hard. People must sort through various BOABs to find the particular BOAB they’re looking for.
• Conversation in comments will be unintelligible. Different people could talk about different BOABs.

The new process will be:

It requires more work, but doesn’t have the downfall of the previous method.

It’s silly that an idea as bad as BOAB got used for quite a long period (around 3 months). Actually, the downfalls were pretty obvious but WordPress’ slow SSL connection combined with my laziness to change things that already worked made it persistent. But it’s better to be late than never, right?

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