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Cranes

I’ve always wondered how they’re erected. Now I know.

Blog is live!

My blog went live on the stroke of midnight, and I’ve just been tweaking the .htaccess file for faster page loads.

This is what I have in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


# MOD_DEFLATE COMPRESSION
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

# 1-WEEK EXPIRES HEADER
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A0
ExpiresDefault A604800
Header append Cache-Control "public"

After that, my YSlow score is 87 (ignoring the E-tags rule), which is pretty good. I’ll probably end up moving this off Dreamhost and onto my Linode server and rice it up.

Dark Design

I’ve decided to go with a dark design after a random experimentation. Lara gave me a brilliant link to the Do’s and Don’ts of Dark Web Design, and that set my decision in concrete.