wiki how?

tried to write a wikiHow article for an astronomy software tutorial.  check back to see if that can work.

also spent a decent fraction of my time looking into archiving wiki content through mirroring, XML source dumps (damn you Trac), etc.

finally, even though a wiki produces pure web content with simple editing tools, complete source packaging, detailed revision control mechanisms (throw in the social web connections if you like that sort of thing) it gonna be a haul to convince...

meta: CMS

spent most of the day adding facets (but little depth) to my knowledge of software like drupal and wordpress.  all attempts to move from the meta to the prototype were unsuccessful.  #vmwarefail