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It's fascinating how even small, simple, static sites like this one are still liable to tinkering. Or perhaps it is because they are small that they are so tinkerable. It's easier when you can see the whole thing, poke at all of its parts. I can better envision rebuilding, modifying, hacking a bicycle than a train engine, for example.
I find that most of my efforts with this site lately are dedicated to wrangling extraneous slashes in the various links and paths. It's all put together with a mixture of perl and bash—capable tools, but also the duct tape and twine of the *nix world—and a dash of emacs lisp for seasoning. It works but it's hard to get everything just right when you're smashing so many strings together.