For the past few months I have been looking for weblogging software that could possibly replace or supplement Blogger, but it has been a frustrating search. The feature that no one seems to have, and this makes little sense to me, is the ability to backdate entries. I would like a system that could handle the whole of a journal, and while I am not as proflific as some, I have been doing this for awhile.

This is a problem with Blogger as well, something that I had hoped would be solved by a Blogger Pro, but with Blogger under something a deathwatch, I'm not sure that will ever happen. The software that is closest so far is the talented Noah Grey's excellent Greymatter. It is Perl-based, creates static HTML, allows reader comments and so on, but it is non-trivial to add "old" entries to it. Drat.

I like the idea of running something on my own box that can parse XML pages, one for each of my entries, but my Perl skills are minimal and I don't know Python at all. Stay tuned.