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Stardate 20011222.1106 (Captain's log): The process of switching over from Greymatter to Citydesk is going well. I spent a lot of the time last week coming up with a new graphic look for the site, with the helpful criticism of some of the participants in the message forum, and that's pretty much straightened out now. It's going to be a bit slower to load because it's using more graphics files, but the burden shouldn't be all that great.

Finnian's shell-hack for cycling the top-page graphics worked great (Thanks!) and I've got it set up to run four times a day. I've created 41 different ones which will cycle and I'll add more as I find candidate images, so there shouldn't be too much problem with fatigue there.

One of the reasons for switching away from Greymatter was that a lot of things weren't scaling well. Most of those affected me, but the "search" mechanism had already gotten to the point of being useless. Citydesk doesn't implement a search, but I found a free-ware server-side search which indexes the site and uses a database. Trying that out is the next thing on my list of things-to-do. Not only is it faster, but it's also a much more intelligent search since it permits you to look for multiple search items which don't have to be contiguous. But it may be too much for the baby processor in this server. (discuss)

Ooops! It was Lister who provided the shell hack, not Finnian.