Changing webloggers
OK, I might be in the market to change exactly how it is that I weblog. I checked out Blosxom and it seems to have all the characteristics I want in a blogger. If I choose, I can set it up to statically render the pages but only run the process inside my internal network at home. It can then chug through and create the HTML from my blog entries and I then scp the pages to my hosting service. This is essentially what happens now, except that BlogMax is the thing chugging the source into HTML. Alternately, since my host gives me cgi-bin access, I could just run the blosxom process on there and get the benefit of the cool dynamic features, the good RSS creation, etc. The thing that is finally putting me off of BlogMax is that the RSS it creates is lousy. I was a little surprised when I installed blosxom at home, pointed it to the same directory where I keep my BlogMax files and it correctly generated a barebones blog with zero configuration! It knew that *.txt files were the source, and it figured out the correct things to do. I guess it works on the timestamp of the file, but I'm impressed enough to consider just changing over to it. Another advantage of setting it up, either here or on my host, is that I can use NetNewsWire to push entries to it as well as editing it via text files on unix box itself. I like having that flexibility.