The blogroll that used to appear to the right of the body copy here is in the shop for some upgrading. I planned to have the operation be simple and painless: the idea is that I’ll use NetNewsWire to maintain my blogroll and kick it out to the website automatically. I ran into some problems, however, when I hit François Nonnenmacher’s weblog: suffice to say I’ve learned a lot more about AppleScript, Unicode, UTF-8, Mac OS Roman and other aspects of internationalization than I ever hoped to.

The blogroll will return shortly.