Introduction

So, I have decided to add a blog to my website. It will not be used for personal or social things - I already have a blog for that, and those who I consider friends know where to find it - but rather for things related to this website, like announcing new software releases or site sections, and also technical things like discussing interesting programming and Unix problems and ideas, etc. Updates will likely be sporadic.

This blog is powered by a lightweight blogging framework called by PyBlosxom, which is a translation into Python of the framework Blosxom (pronounced "blossom", written in Perl). From what I have seen so far, PyBlosxom is really cool. No databases are involved - each entry is created as a plain text file and the framework assigns a date and time to each entry by looking at the modification time stamp on the corresponding file. This is pretty neat. You can write your blog entries using vi or emacs (or whatever else you like), and backing up/moving your blog is trivial (it's just a directory of text files). Customising your blog's appearance is very easy, it took me no time at all to get my blog looking like the rest of my site. PyBlosxom fits nicely with my ideals on simple software.