Book diary: day 1

A long-time goal has been to rewrite my book diary scripts to produce a standalone collection of HTML. The scripts initially depended on my web site's templating system, which is now being phased out, and then was rewritten to post to a WordPress weblog, which turned out to be fragile.

Today I started working on that. Tasks done:

• Added the Mako templating library and the Blueprint CSS framework, which I intend to make use of.
  
• Wrote the skeleton of a new 'html' subcommand that will generate the HTML tree that will generate very plain-looking unstyled HTML.
  
• Added a 'serve' Makefile target that will run a small web server (taking the code from the
  python.org tree).
  

Remaining tasks: make the HTML prettier; generate a tag cloud; make the code smart about only generating the files that need to be changed.