And then a long digression about hypertext

I'm still thinking about how I want to organize all this, as well as how to reference everything. One idea for the URL space I came up with is

http://boston.conman.org/log/1999.12.12

would retrieve all the (currently written) parts for that day. To reference a particular part, then:

http://boston.conman.org/log/1999.12.12.2

would only retrieve that part (in this case, what you are reading right now). By that logic (and following the logic used by my Electric King James [1] and by now I'm sure your tired of hearing about it) then:

http://boston.conman.org/log/1999.12

would retrieve the entire month of December, 1999. Most weblogs/journals though, would react differently; something like (using what I have so far, excluding today):

November, 1999	December, 1999	January, 2000 [2]

4^th… Saturday [3] 	Sailing the Corporate Seas [4] 	5^th… Sunday [5] 	“How much for just the student?” [6] 
6^th… Monday [7] 	It's just a question of focus [8]… SimplyPorn [9] 	7^th… Tuesday [10] 	A Real Conspriacy? [11]… A sound legacy [12] 
8^th… Wednesday [13] 	Fastest Proprietary 80x86 Based Operating System [14]… Exclusion [15] 	9^th… Thursday [16] 	“The politics are so fierce precisely because the stakes are so low.” [17]… Surreal upgrades [18]… I'd hate to think what it would do on a corrupted system. [19]… Inbloodysane [20] 
10^th… Friday [21] 	A License to License [22]… Hypertext, weblogs and journals [23]… “I can crack this! Or rather, fix it!” [24]… Convolution [25]… “Do not fold, spindle or mutilate …” [26]… The other WEB [27] 	11^th… Saturday [28] 	Mapping the Corporate Sea [29]… Reorg [30]… Shut up, Mark [31]… 2b|~2b [32] 

(Whew! Did that by hand) But this breaks what I did for the Bible. If you request Genesis [33], you get the entire book, not:

Genesis

Chapter 1 [34]… Chapter 2 [35]… Chapter 3 [36]… Chapter 4 [37]… Chapter 5 [38]… Chapter 6 [39]… Chapter 7 [40]… .… .… .…

and so on. You get that at some of the other online Bibles, which is what I wanted to avoid. But in retrieving the entire month, you'll get a large document (so far, it's 38,196 bytes for the entries from the 4^th to the 11^th).

But I'm leaning towards doing that. If you want it, you'll get it.

Update on Sunday, August 25^th, 2002

Originally, I had intended the archive section to appear under something like:

http://boston.conman.org/log/

But I never did it that way; yet the links in this entry were originally written with that in mind, and the various web robots where sending requests for the pages, which didn't exist (of course).

So I fixed the links themselves in this entry.

[1] http://literature.conman.org/bible/

[2] /boston/2000/01

[3] /boston/1999/12/04

[4] /boston/1999/12/04.1

[5] /boston/1999/12/05

[6] /boston/1999/12/05.1

[7] /boston/1999/12/06

[8] /boston/1999/12/06.1

[9] /boston/1999/12/06.2

[10] /boston/1999/12/07

[11] /boston/1999/12/07.1

[12] /boston/1999/12/07.2

[13] /boston/1999/12/08

[14] /boston/1999/12/08.1

[15] /boston/1999/12/08.2

[16] /boston/1999/12/09

[17] /boston/1999/12/09.1

[18] /boston/1999/12/09.2

[19] /boston/1999/12/09.3

[20] /boston/1999/12/09.4

[21] /boston/1999/12/10

[22] /boston/1999/12/10.1

[23] /boston/1999/12/10.2

[24] /boston/1999/12/10.3

[25] /boston/1999/12/10.4

[26] /boston/1999/12/10.5

[27] /boston/1999/12/10.6

[28] /boston/1999/12/11

[29] /boston/1999/12/11.1

[30] /boston/1999/12/11.2

[31] /boston/1999/12/11.3

[32] /boston/1999/12/11.4

[33] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis

[34] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.1

[35] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.2

[36] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.3

[37] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.4

[38] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.5

[39] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.6

[40] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.7

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