fixed archive feature

As some of you sharp-eyed readers have noticed - yes, the year-month archive pages were broken. The May one showed June entries, and the June one showed May ones.

Thanks to Nick Johnson for pointing this out.

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timezone support in bloggart

I wanted to localize this blog to my timezone - after all, I live here, and not in a UTC region.

But this needed some work. Most GAE python developers (no pun intended) would have noticed the lack of timezone-awareness for datetime properties.

To add timezone-awareness in bloggart, I had to ...

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squelching port numbers in nginx redirects

I'm running a nginx installation on webfaction, and it's long bothered me that URL rewrites/redirects in nginx included the port number in the resulting host.

For example, if you had this piece of config

server {
	listen	1001;
	server_name	foo.com;

	location = / {
		rewrite ^.*$ /under_construction redirect;
	}
}

a hit on ...

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