Numpty

Ugh. Nurofen-plus bad for brain, but shagged-up neck worse. I can barely string thoughts together, therefore.

I now have a(n) XML-RPC session between a client and MovableType pulled off the wire by the reasonable splendid Ethereral. I wish I'd never looked, frankly. It's an ugly, crawling thing and I shall use the kXML-RPC library so I don't have to touch any of its Winery foulness.

The perl brokenness was down to the poorly-documented wrapper round XMLRPC::SomethingOrOther not being able to cope with a proxy. Once installed on the nasty old box @ home, it went like a train. As you can see from http://www.libeljournal.com/

It would appear that the metaweblog.Upload call/method/watchamacallit may return a URL. Which is nice of it. And kXML contains byte-array<->base64 translation routines/classes/coalsheds, which is equally nice.

Pobol Y Cwm

Your posts these days are mostly Welsh, but I still read them for the bits in between.

It's about information density.

Maybe I'm approaching the English language (or indeed any other human-interactive medium) the same way I approach(ed) C. If you start thinking in terms of context-dependency and macro-expansion... No, I think I'm too woolly-headed today to explore it properly. Perhaps someone else has a better idea?

What I tend to think is that the best writing works on your brain the same way a self-expanding archive or a viral payload might work on a computer. Just a few lines of innocent-seeming words unwrap into something conceptually far larger that keeps unfolding along lines that traverse dimensions that make your eyes hurt when you try to look at them.

3Junk

We have a 'hello world' on the phone.

Good. That means the toolchain works, even with my hamfisted interference. A pity NetBeans can't be configured to play, but there we are.

And I think I begin to understand what's going on. All that Intuition and Win3.0 event-model experience might prove useful. Might.

A celebratory beer now, I think.