So I decided that doing this weblog by hand is too painful to continue. I took a look at Blogger and a couple of others but decided on Greymatter. It’s a pretty slick software package that’s written entirely in PERL. I’m running the site with Apache on Linux, so the installation was pretty simple. It has an easy to use interface that includes a commenting and voting capability. I haven’t enabled these features yet, but may in the future. Right now this weblog is read-only for the public, but I may choose to enable this in the future. The templating capability has allowed me eliminate the use of server-side includes for the sidebar and footer sections of the main page.

Any thoughts on weblogging software? Send me comments.