Now I've actually got this mini-blogging mechanism sorted out, I'm finding it much quicker to use than when I have to write up the rambles. I may have to shift the mechanism over...

For those that care, I'm using XMPP/Jabber and feeding messages to here. It's very light and doesn't require any major coding—just a bit of PHP, a good Jabber service and a cron job. Nifty.