Mac, blog and BlogMax
I've been looking for a simple blogging tool that I could use possibly on all of my various machines and without being tied down to any particular Weblog community or host, if you wish.
I first came across (well, more like “Found on VersionTracker”) iBlog. It migth be a nice tool and it does allow to do pretty much what I wanted — to use my .Mac account to host the blog — but I was not particularily inclined to pay for it, nor was it fitting the “various machines” requirement.
I’ve been using Emacs as my major text editor (although I would fall to vi every once in a while, as well as use w2k’s Notepad as a quick scratch pad), and has been spending some time on EmacsWiki looking at WikiMode in particular, and that is where I came across BlogMax.
Now, this fits a lot better with what I need in terms of usability across the platforms, although I am yet to figure out sharing of the database of blog files. On my PowerBook at home I am using sitecopy(1) to do the mirrorring, as suggested in this MacOSX hint.
I’ve had to make a few changes to the provided site templates, as well as a few minor changes to the code — primarily to get rid of tables for laying out the site. I’ll post these separately.
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On a separate note, I really feel the need to get at list a little bit more familiar with Emacs LISP, and LISP/Scheme/Guile/etc. in general. While practical (as in bread and butter) value from this is relatively minimal (my day’s job is actually very far from programming as such), there might be a “fringe” or fun factor to it. With that thought in mind I have downloaded this nice little app for my good-ol’ Pal (it is old — it is a IIIx, mono, with just 4Mb of RAM). It is a mini-Scheme interpreter that runs on Palm. It has access to graphing capabilities, DB, notes and to-do’s — the whole shebang!
