I needed a place to put an introduction to muFORTH so I could modify the git sources to point there instead of ... nowhere, which is currently where they point.

I'm not a big fan of Google's approach to publishing - at least their "canned" solutions like Google Sites (what yer lookin at) and Google Pages (which they are deprecating and will eventually no longer support, in favor of Sites). But, being a beggar - looking for free places to post content - I can't be a chooser. (And I don't want to wait any longer for me to figure out how to bend Blogger to my wishes.)

Why so curmudgeonly? Well, they (Google) care about different things than I do. I care about (among other things)

• valid XHTML
• semantic, rather than presentational, XHTML
• using CSS to support said semantic markup
• using nice human-friendly (wiki-style) markup to author content, rather than wysiwyg editors that generate non-extensible markup
  

At least in their publishing apps, Google mostly don't care about these things. Or they do, but they don't give me the choices that I'd like to have, instead choosing perhaps to present an interface that will satisfy many users, and those left out will suffer or go elsewhere.

For this application I'm stuck with what Sites does and doesn't. But that's ok, since you're here to read about muFORTH and not to listen to me rant about web publishing.

I hope that you're enjoying my choice of the silliest, mostly childish "theme" I could find. It's a sort of ironic raised middle finger pointed at Google.

If, in spite of all its faults, you want to use Sites, you might be interested in the following quirk I discovered. I'm using the version of Sites that exists in Google Apps (which hosts most of nimblemachines.com). The version of Sites that you get with your regular Google account might be different.

Sites tags both site activity and anouncement posts (like this one) with a Real Name that is derived from the username of the person who made the changes. In the Apps version of Sites, this association is made in the "user list" part of the domain dashboard. What's strange is that on an old site that I had set up, the name it used was simply the unadorned username. Today I noticed it used my Real Name, and that there was no way, in Sites, to change this behaviour.

What is even odder is that Real Names associated with anouncement posts (like this) are generated dynamically from the current name in the user list for the domain, but the Recent activity log - both on the sidebar and available from the footer link - is statically generated and contains the Real Name associated with that user at the time the activity occurred.

For unexplained reasons it annoyed me that my Real Name would be splattered willy-nilly over this site. So I deleted the old site and re-created it to start with a clean slate.

I also changed my Real Name to something that is hopefully amusing.