Busy behind the scenes

Yeah, I've been kind of quiet lately because there are all sorts of projects underway. Such as:

• A new tenant at Bad Movie Planet, which necessitates a redesigned home page for that site (it's not live yet).
  
• A redesign of Filmboy (still in the planning stages) so Jeff can start updating his own site. Because of all the other stuff I've got going it often takes a week or longer for his reviews to get posted.
  
• A new site based around a certain favorite character from childhood (still in the design stages)
  
• An upcoming B-Masters roundtable
  
• Other projects either too obscure, boring, or overdue to mention here
  
• A recent garage sale (clutter gone, bank account slightly happier)
  
• My day job
  

I've been searching high and low for a decent content management system and come to the conclusion that what I really want is a decent web site management system. I don't care so much that I have to upload files, I just don't want to have to work so hard at getting the pages to look good and at making small changes site-wide. After much mucking about with systems like PHPNuke and Xoops and SiteFrame, I (re-)stumbled upon Blosxom, which is billed as a blogging tool but is really an incredible piece of simple-yet-powerful code. I initially rejected it as too simplistic, but after dealing with complicated installs and even more complicated interfaces and templates, I find it may just be exactly what I need.

I'm glad there are tools like Blogger and Wordpress for web-interface driven web site management, but for some of my needs I'm happier using a text editor and an FTP client while still reaping the benefits of a CMS.