On Dec 10th my old blog hosted here died, the DB has been restored and here it is. My old rants and pics are all there, this was my blog using my homespun blog tool newsvendor.
NewsVendor is still available as a news site tool for CMS at www.newsvendor.com via the design works of Dublin based design company doop design. NewsVendor has a good few advantages over blogger such as photo upload local to the news DB but for full portability I am flirting with blogger.com a full install example of NewsVendor can be seen at SiliconRepublic.com