[ my query about blog software snipped ] blosxom is in sarge/sid, and is really really simple. You can copy the CGI that runs it onto your woody systems without trouble. The downside I've found with using it for simple logs (daily network status stuff at my work) is that it uses mtime on the blog entry file for the date it displays for the entry. This means you can't go back and edit older entries and keep them as entries for the original date (at least not without timestamp trickery).
Hi Nate --Thanks for the tip. Interestingly, my search yesterday on "blog" in the Debian package descriptions didn't turn that up. In the meantime, I found both Moveable Type and Greymatter as non-Debian options. Moveable Type seemed overly complicated, and the installation instructions were pretty unclear. Greymatter was pretty simple to install and seems to do what I need, so I got that running this morning. While Moveable Type has a fairly limited license (non-commercial use only), Greymatter is under a free license so it should be possible to make a Debian package of it; not sure why no one has so far...
Thanks for the tip. John