About the name
For a while, my only webfront was a little dinky site run off my @home account. Given the speed of the @home member servers,
I decided to register a domain name and set up my own site. A few nightmares later, and here I am.
The name. I like buildhigh, I think it's inspirational somehow. It's actually a quote from an episode of Doctor Who, in which
a group of people had been living in an apartment building for generations and had fallen into tribal warfare and cannibalism. If that's not a metaphor for
this planet, I don't know what is.
About the code
buildhigh.com is hosted on a linux box running PHP4, and I wouldn't have it any other way. The journal
on the front page was written by me in PHP, and it simply parses a flat text file to read the 5 latest (or whatever is
called for by the code) entries. Simple, quick, and effective.
But that was over a year ago. And I've moved to movabletype since then. And I really like it. :)
The snapshot page is another little PHP quickie. It allows a image
to be passed in the querystring, reads the image, and will also look for an optional description file based on the
name of the image. Which means when you look at a image, you don't have to see just the image and white browser
space screaming at you from around the image. Nice, eh?
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