>>My blog is hosted by blogspot. Now that is owned by Google too. If I allowed all these to be put together, anyone with access to the data could pretty much know where I was at certain times. Which would have been impossible, had these remained independent.
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>Can you recommend a tool or tools for developing a blog site? Part B, is a blog just a web site or is it fundamentally different in some ways? I think I can klutz out a web site using just HTML, CSS, classic ASP, and some JavaScript or jQuery, but maybe there is an easier/faster way.

Though I many times do develop stuff for myself, because whatever I can find isn't my size or doesn't fit my needs in many ways, for a blog I'd simply prefer to write the texts instead of code. Apart from blogger/blogspot, I'm also using wordpress (collaborating on a friend's blog here) and I find that one handier. Its editor has just about the same number of quirks, but somehow it feels a bit smoother (even though hosted on a much weaker server than what Google has). OTOH, it could be that the feeling comes from fewer things to worry about - after all, I'm only collaborating and someone else keeps the house.

>Back on thread topic, you'll never guess who I received an email from yesterday. Kevin Goff. He had heard (didn't say where) that Michel has the site up for sale. It still rankles him that he was banned for life and that some people believed he was "Grover." He denied it vehemently enough to me at the time that I believed him. Kevin may be a bomb thrower but I have not known him to be dishonest. If the site is sold, I hope he is allowed back in.

Maybe he WILL buy UT :).