Every once in a while I get to disliking the code on my website, but I never dislike it enough to do anything drastic. I'm in such a state right now; its basically a Hodge podge of python scripts, none of which I care for all that much. There's nothing exactly technical about anything either; a bunch of parameterized strings with very static HTML code mixed in an inconsistent jumble. The only thing that is of particular note at this point is the design that I tweaked quite a bit to accomplish (although still rough around the edges), and finally the problem isn't that I don't like the way it looks, but I don't like the way that it works.. that it is.
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For most of today I was trying my hand at developing an object oriented framwork that would result in generated code that would look as if it was handwritten. My preliminary results are pretty encouraging. The main idea comes from the the design of PHPhtmlLib, but I wasn't happy with the generated code from that library and wanted something a little more XHTML friendly.
Tonight I watched The Take, a film made by Naomi Klein who I very much respect for her insights and reporting in Iraq. It follows the struggles of occupied worker-run factories in Argentina and somewhat excitingly affirms that many of my beliefs about the virtues of worker control and cooperative economics. Its not available in the US yet, but if you can find it anywhere (it is up on the dissident torrent site Chomsky torrents) I highly recommend watching it.
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