Just thought I'd mention that after several days, I'm extremely happy with the software I set up to run this weblog. It's called Movable Type and it's free, though they ask for donations and charge a modest fee if you want them to install it on your server. On the old news from me page at POVonline, I hand-formatted things, so to do an entry meant a certain amount of time fiddling with software and HTML codes and uploading.
With Movable Type, any time a thought hits me, I can just open a window, enter text like this, click and — ZAP! — it's up on the website. If while surfing the web I come across something I want to recommend to you, I right-click, select the MT option and it not only opens a window for me to type in but pastes in the link for me, as well. I don't have to worry about archiving, either. Movable Type handles all that. The downsides were that since I didn't want to use any of their standard templates for my page format, I had to design a page, then figure out how to make Movable Type create that page. This meant learning a little something about XHTML, the new web format, but it was worth it. Hope you agree.