...more recent posts
I finally filled in all the post summaries for the archive. But I was too lazy to go back and actually decide on a summary for that year and a half of posts so I just wrote a little script to grab all posts without post summaries (from my page) out of the database, strip out any tags, take the first seven words, and insert them (followed by '...') back in as the post summary. Maybe I'll run that on some of the group pages as well.
Anyway, a funny thing happend. I was testing it before I actually let it loose on the real database, and it's a good thing because of course I had the script wrong at first. I wasn't unsetting a variable at the bottom of a loop, so the first seven words were accmulating from post to post. This is the resulting post summary for the final post of that particular misguided round. But words are funny. This is like the Brian Gysin cut up stuff. It can be really interesting. So now I have lots of ideas for cut up style tools you can apply to your page. Weblogs might be really great fuel for that sort of strategy.
It was pointed out to me that the new archive I wrote about the other day was not working for some browsers (notably 4.x Navigator.) I believe this problem has been corrected.