Thursday May 05, 2005

Personal log stardate... I've kept a dead tree journal for some time now. Its an on again, off again sort of thing. Recently I've really been itching to keep the same thing on my thumbdrive where I can store images, sounds, data, etc. along with my entries in a form factor I can carry with me anywhere. So as a first try I looked around for software that would allow me to keep a personal log in html. Most of the things I found didn't really fit or were for hand held platforms (low datarate entry devices). One thing I ran across is elog. From a shared lab log type of thing it sounds like a cool tool. But still didn't quite meet my needs. Just as I was about to hack something up with Ruby on Rails (I'd already decided whatever I did should be in Java/Ruby/something I could run on a variety of platforms) I ran across Pimki. Pimki is a wiki/weblog/todo list/RSS feed generator package written in Ruby. Its not really meant as a personal log but provided me most of what I wanted in one fairly simple package. There are a few things it lacks in the security area. I would like to be able to logout without shutting down the server and I would like to be able to keep the data encrypted. But all in all its a fairly reasonable package. I suspect my personal log will be electronic from now on. ( May 05 2005, 12:53:01 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]