First things first. If you made it back here despite all of my fucking around, congratulations. I tortured things horribly.
The headspace is mostly moved to its new home (http://loophole.morpheus.net), along with a really crufty copy of the rest of my personal web crap. The original address should now be reporting the move and the new URL (I hope). Special thanks to jaeger and fathom for all their help.
As you might have noticed, I have given the entry layout a slight sprucing. I'm much happier with the new look. Hopefully in the next couple of days I'll be able to go through the database and make some changes so the comments and links will integrate better. Please let me know if you run in to any bugs. I will try and get them swatted as quickly as possible. The move is uncovering a whole lot of slop in my code...
The Headspace as it is now started out as three really quick-n-dirty perl scripts. Like everyone else that codes haphazardly I find myself in the awkward position of having a lot of content that I don't want to throw away but needs drastic reorganization. *sigh* You'd think I'd know better by now.
At any rate I'm trying to get things nominally back in order so I can begin the necessary housekeeping for the next version. I think I have a plan worked out that should make the whole thing relatively transparent... famous last words. We shall see, I suppose.
Yeah. The backend's mysql. The problem isn't the database or even necessarily the table layout (although it could stand some work). The problem is that for the comments and links I've stored actual static HTML in the database... so I can't easily change them when I change the layout of the rest of the site. What I'll end up having to do is suck the comments out of the database, parse the actual content out of the HTML, and then poke them back in. Same with most of the links.