Add intro text for Friends, and move list to sidebar.

2 files changed, 27 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/friends.mdwn b/friends.mdwn
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--- a/friends.mdwn
+++ b/friends.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,24 @@
-# pages tagged friends
+# Messages to Friends
 
-[[!inline pages="tagged(friends)" actions="no" archive="yes"
-feedshow=10]]
+In 1997, I started occasionally sending emails to all of my friends that
+I was in contact with by email.  At first simply listing them all as
+recipients in a regular email, but later I maintained a proper
+mailinglist for it.
+
+My habits changed gradually, and by 2004 I no longer used that list -
+posting news directly on my website instead.
+
+When I learned about the concept of "blogging" I realized that in a way
+that is what I had been practising back then, just not using the RSS or
+Atom distribution mechanisms making proper blogging so extremely
+efficient.
+
+Now I decided to re-release my old Friends posts as modern blog entries,
+for archival purposes.
+
+Even if I didn't know about blogging, my web programming tool back then
+was [Frontier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userland_Software#Frontier),
+which later became one of the first blogging tools.  That happened after
+a shift to a more commercial licensing model - an issue which back then
+meant enough for me to abandon it, and now is essential to my approach
+to computers.
diff --git a/friends/sidebar.mdwn b/friends/sidebar.mdwn
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+# Messages to Friends
+
+[[!inline pages="tagged(friends)" actions="no" archive="yes"
+template="titlepage" sort="-meta(date)"]]