Giving in to the Dark Side
I couldn’t resist any longer; I have officially given in to the self-congratulatory blog craze. I will try to keep the interminable accounts of what I had for breakfast to a minimum.
I looked at several blogging solutions, but found each too intrusive. All of them required an application server, or worse still an application server that I couldn’t host myself. To my mind, a blog should be simple enough to run on a plain old web server.
So I ended up writing a short XSLT 2.0 script I call Blogfountain. I plan to post this under the GPL 2.0 license after I have worked the more obvious kinks out. Blogfountain circumvents the problem of comment spam by implementing a clever suggestion made by David Siffry: if you want to make a comment, start your own blog. Blogfountain links to a Google listing of pages that link back to it. [Note: this blog has since been moved to WordPress]