[geeklog-users] Is geeklog what I'm looking for?

[Troy Rockwood]

Hi,
   I'm not a member of the list so if you don't mind, please also
respond to my email address.  I have some ideas about a tool that would
be useful to me but I don't know if anything like it is available.
   I want to keep track of stuff that I do and learn and build
something like a big knowledge-base.  In this knowledge-base I could
put definitions.  For instance:

Today I learned about Intrusion Detection Systems, IDS's:
 <name> Network Intrusion detection system <definition> An intrusion
detection system is a program or programs that monitor network traffic
for either known bad behavior or anomalous behavior and report it to
some kind of console. </definition> <altername names> NIDS IDS
</altername names> </name>

I would really like it if later when I mentioned that I learned about
snort which is an open source IDS implementation, it would
automagically highlight IDS and provide a link back to the definition
because it was a name or alternate name that I had defined.  It would
be doubly neat if it could do it without foolish looking xml type tags
but I think that's a little too much to expect at this point.

I am currently using zoph (an open source photo album organizer -
http://www.nother.net/zoph/) to organize photos.  It's nice but it
doesn't allow you to tell a story and intersperse photos at the same
time (I think the name for that kind of thing is a photolog).  Wanting
something like that and realizing that I had forgotten some important
things that I should have remebered from last week made me consider
something even more elaborate which might be called a "life-log" or
something in which you could store all kinds of things (photos, video,
text, definitions, impressions, instructions, etc.)  I took a look at
www.everything2.com and it's similar.  I wonder if anyone knows of
something like this that I can install on my machine for my personal
use (I don't want a site, I would prefer to run it myself like zoph or
geeklog.) or maybe geeklog already does it?  Thanks.


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Troy Rockwood - troyrock at rocketmail.com

UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid
things, because that would also stop you from doing
clever things.  -- Doug Gwyn

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