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So, it's nothing particularly earth shattering, but I've made a few updates.

1. I've added an "archives" section, so it's a lot easier to jump to older posts if you're looking for something I wrote in a given month and year. Granted, there's not a lot to choose from at this point, and it's pretty obvious where I took a few breaks from posting (the first break was pretty long, and in fact was due to some of my misunderstandings).
2. I decided that making the links for newer/older posts to be like /start/blah/ instead of like ?start=blah really wouldn't be that tough, so I just went ahead and did it. I'm wondering if this is a good way to go about it though, since the "start" links are fairly ephemeral - for each and every post, those numbers shift.
3. I also broke some of the uglier code out to separate subroutines. The following seemed to clutter things up in index:Local:

Also of note is that most of the temporary variables above are leftover from when I was using Kate for code syntax highlighting - the "format" method clobbered (didn't localize) $_, so I had to assign $_ to something else. I could probably take that part out and condense it a bit, but I'm not yet sure if that would interfere with readability.