I've been doing far too much DOM manipulation lately for a mere mortal.

I'm so engrossed in DOM-thinking at the moment that I'm debating the idea of starting a web re-design company that takes an existing design and converts it to a big JavaScript file that renders the entire page element by element, attribute by attribute via DOM manipulation. Think I'll have any clients?

I've given up on using transparent PNGs for now.

By most statistics, more-or-less half of the users on the web use IE6. IE6 has horrible support for PNG transparency. There are workarounds documented on sites such as WebFX and A List Apart. Personally, I don't feel like using JavaScript unnecessarily and I had no luck with anything related to AlphaImageLoader to work while running IE6 through IEs4Linux. (Not sure if it's due to the emulation or just that the workarounds I found didn't actually work.)

I've been using DokuWiki for a little while and really like it. I had the idea of trying to convert my Drupal site, which is mainly used as a blog, to running on DokuWiki. It was a fun experiment, but led me to believe that there was no seamless way to perform such a conversion without far more effort than could be justified.

After doing some research online and conducting some benchmarks using ab, I decided to make the switch from Apache 2.2 to Lighttpd.