My home-grown blog software, while kind of lousy, does something I haven't seen other blog software do well that I can't live without: automatically publish post-dated entries. You may have noticed that my entries are usually about a week behind the rest of the weblog world. This is because I collect subjects for entries throughout the week, then do all of my write-ups and posting on Sunday, to be meted out in regular doses across the following week. Real-time posting just isn't my style.
Every time I sit down to write out a list of things I want my blog software to be able to do, the amenable, inevitable, effin' ineffable Moveable Type hits every mark except this one. Of course, I've considered modifying MT myself to add the feature, but never had enough consecutive chunks spare time to follow through. And of course, I mention it to MT hacker extraordinaire Jim Flanagan last Saturday, and by Sunday he produces Trickle.
With this plus other MT add-ons, it's almost a slam dunk for my purposes and tastes. It's pretty much assured that I will be using or modifying MT for this site at some point. Probably not this month, but soon.
When I first hit your weblog the logo at the top I assumed the people who make "The Brain" a sort of freeform database had gone into the blogging business.
I use MT and read the annoucements of new plugins avidly. But I've never installed one other than MT-Textile. And I only let that do entity conversion. (Don't want to use shorthand for the HTML in case I ever move from MT.)