This was my first post to this world-readable blog. Thanks to Jerrit, I'd played around with it earlier on my laptop. Then I found this article in Linux Journal about aap, an alternative to 'make' or 'ant' (for scripting tasks), and had this fantasy of sitting in some cafe, writing a blog entry, and updating my blog automatically using aap. That's what I'm working on getting working right now.

My first problem with configuration on the server was the footer wouldn't appear, and with it, the sidebar and links to my websites.

aap seems to be working pretty well, although I had a permissions issue with one of the subdirectories it creates locally, to track signatures. That must be because I installed as root, but want to run it as my regular self.