Until today I was keeping this log in a plain text file, but then I wanted to start marking up the content in a more meaningful way than simply putting asterisks around words that I wanted to *emphasize*.

Anyway, this is the first entry that was added using the new system.

So I added a table to the database, set that up, wrote the form that I'm using to add the entries, wrote the script to process the form and put the results in the database, added security to the form so that it would require a user name and password to add an entry, tested the new form and script by adding a few dummy entries, and then began re-formatting the old entries into HTML so that I could add them to the database and begin today's work.

Oh yeah, and then I had to write a script to display the results of the log entries from the database.

Essentially, I spent more time on the log talking about building the site than I spent working on the actual site today.

But this new system should save me time in the long run. At least, that's what I told myself before I started in on this today.

And now that I'm using the new form I want to change the CSS that styles it to make it easier for me to read.

And of course if I add entries in the web form I lose my spell-checker.

So will I be writing the entries in TextPad and then copying them in here every day?

Yeah, probably.

Every modicum of progress has a price.