As you might have noticed, there is a new block to the left: "Recent feedback". Since it is nice to be able to see comments to older posts, I wanted this feature. After some fiddling (it even exposed a bug in the feedback plugin) I got it to work.

I'm using Frank Hecker's feedback plugin for my comments and writebacks instead of the "normal" comment or writeback plugins or derivatives. Yet, all the recent feedback kind of plugins were written for those. Still, since the feedback plugin uses a format very similar to the other plugins, I decided to give it a try.

After some comparing plugins, I found the writeback_recent plugin, which pretty much did what I wanted and even got comments and documentation (as opposed to some of the other plugins). To my surprise, it pretty much worked out of the box with feedback.

I used the following configuration in writeback_recent:

my $writeback_dir       = "$feedback::fb_dir";
my $trackback_extension = "wb";
my $trackback_flavour   = $blosxom::flavour;

I use $blosxom::flavour here, since feedback does not use a different flavour to display commetns as writeback does. To make sure that the reference to $feedback::fb_dir in the first line would work I updated the feedback configuration replacing my with our in the fb_dir configuration line:

our $fb_dir = "$blosxom::basedir/feedback";

Last night, I was chatting in #larp as I have done a lot this week (since the last Symbols Event). A fiend of mine was complaining about her exams and that she was fed up with learning for them. She wanted to go and do something fun with somebody. I don't remember exactly how or why (don't have the IRC logs handy), but somebody proposed I went over to her and I ended up thinking that was a good idea.

So, after just over two hours of train and bus (Enschede Drienerlo - Hengelo - Zutphen - Arnhem - Ede-Wageningen - Wageningen) I arrived at her place in Wageningen. I spent most of the time in the train calling with an old friend and thinking about what the hell I was doing ;-)

As she promised, there was lots of tea and as expected not too much sleep (she had to get up for a presentation at university at 0900...). So, I'm pretty much broken now and on my way back to Enschede to check the finances of Pro Deo and theatre sports repetition after that. I might not fully stay awake tonight, but, it was worth it :-)

I've prettified the category listing at the top of the page using the menu plugin this week. Instead of showing all categories recursively, it now shows just the (sub)categories in the current category, so you can browse them. Also, the current category is show using the (slightly modified) breadcrumbs plugin.

I've also started tagging posts using the tagging plugin. Tagging is a very freeform way of categorizing posts, without limiting them to just one tag. At the bottom of the posts, all the tags that are stuck onto the post are show, click on them to see other posts with the same tag. The tagging plugin also supports listing related stories, I might enable that as soon as I've tagged a few more posts.

Also, look at the fancy "tag cloud" to the left, which shows all tags I've used (bigger and darker means more frequently used). Not too many yet, but that'll change soon.

I've found a bunch of other plugins that seem useful too, so I'll be spending some more time in the train (as I do now) configuring and embedding those plugins soon. Let's see if I can get some kind of photo gallery up and running now...