Here's a question for all of the Munuvians who know more about how all of this works than I do. (And I wager that's a fairly high number.)
Is it possible, for purposes of a presentation, to run a blog locally on your own system so that it is not accessible over the internet? Is there a blogging package that can do this fairly easily and really really really cheaply?
And now for the real kick in the pants - is there one that will do all of this on a MAC?
My original plan was to just dummy the thing up in Keynote (Apple's alternative to PowerPoint) but if it could be more real, that would be more better.
UPDATE: I found a shareware program called iBlog (mac programmers are clever namers) it might sort of work but it doesn't have a comment feature.
Posted by Stephen Macklin at September 29, 2005 04:33 AM | TrackBackWell, if you could always install Apache, MySQL, and PHP or Perl (if they're not installed already) and run Movable Type or Wordpress. 
To run a full-featured blog locally on your own machine, you also have to essentially have a web-server installed, including a whole slew of plugin modules (perl etc.)and a database (mySQL etc.). It can certainly be done, but it's a helluva lot of work for just a demo.
Posted by Light & Dark at September 29, 2005 02:34 AMGiven all of that I think that even if I could make that happen, I can probably still fake it in Illustrator in half the time I could do the HTML and CSS.
Thanks for talking me down.
Posted by Stephen Macklin at September 29, 2005 02:57 AMI have Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, Perl, Python, PHP, Pike, Ruby and Java installed on my notebook. It's fun!
Still working on installing all the applications...
Posted by Pixy Misa at September 29, 2005 03:16 AM