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{ Daily Archives } Thursday, April 2004

Weblog Creation

This is the third time I’ve tried to set up a weblog. Maybe this time I’ll actually feel happy enough with the results that I start publicly using it, rather than bogging down installing and testing.

Unlike many people I know, I decided that my main reason for blogging was to blog, rather than to code a blogging system, and that I had no great desire to do so (using someone else’s work and then tweaking to suit my needs has always appealed). So I set out to find what software there is out there that I like the look of, and could install on the box in the basement which is my web server.

Why Weblogs?

Weblogs are the natural extension to home pages 1994-style. Instead of static pictures of cats, they are today’s picture of the cats (or garden, or sunset). They’re an online diary, a project management tool, and a place to record progress in whatever you do.