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<P>Lately, I've been working on the new version of Lumberjack. There are a number of features I'd like to add, but first I need to fix a bunch of bugs. For example: I've been working on installing it on my home machine so that I can test faster and so I won't screw up the working version. That's the problem. I'm <i>working</i> on installing it. Its not easy to do. A lot of things I set up manually on the raq, and I want them to be automatic now.

<p>One thing that motivates me to work on this project is the increased number of hits I've been getting on my <a href="http://www.mattbelcher.com/lumberjack/demo.jsp">demo page</a>. It appears some people are interested in using it besides, <a href="http://www.kimma.net/">kim</a>, <a href="http://www.sscrawlinc.com/">evan</a>, and <a href="http://www.mattbelcher.com/">myself</a>.
Nothing motivates an <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">OSS</a> developer more than knowing people want his product.

<p>I've planned all along to have pluggable filters built into Lumberjack that parse your posts and edit them in some way. I think it would be really fun to have one that picks out keywords and changes them into links to whatever website <a href="http://www.google.com/">google</a> spits out when you hit "I feel Lucky."

<p>Another thing that would be nice is an easier way to edit posts when you make a mistake. And a "preview" button to show you what its going to look like before you actually add it to the database. All in good time.

<p>In other news, it snowed a lot today. Its about time. We've been in 40+ temperatures for two weeks and the miniscule amount of snow we got prior to that has been long gone. Today we got 4+ inches, and its still going. Fun.