D.I.Y.

So, I finally admitted that I don't have time to whip up even a quick personal blogging app, especially since I wanted to document it as I went, along the lines of the 15min blog app screencast that the rails crowd has on their website.

So I decided that if I was going to use a ready made blog app, rather than doing it myself, I'd at least try to go the whole web app route and rather than installing an app on my laptop or on my server, I'd use a web service style app and decided to try Google's Blogger, since I remembered it has the option of publishing to your web server and not just using their website.
Well so far, (its only my first post) so far, so good: all I had to do was create a directory in my public html directory on my server, plugged-in my sftp login and all done. I did have one hiccup when I changed the ftp path but didn't realise I also needed to change the 'archive' path, but apart from that its a nice looking, clean, easy to use interface.

I still plan to make my own blog app when I get a bit more spare time, but for now Blogger looks good and I can keep working on my current project (more details on that soon) and have somewhere to write my thoughts on it.

PS. Oh and just found it has a very nice spell checke, but one which ironically doesn't recognise words like 'Blogger' and 'blog' and no well to choose British over US spelling, but oh well no one can be perfect - I'm still very happy with it, well done Blogger & Google.