One of the sidebar links is to the the Mensan Blog and I host this on my (reseller) server. Its handy doing it that way because I can add the type of enhancements like a google map page that just isn’t possible with the likes of Blogger.

The mensan blog uses Pivot, open source blogging software. I just wanted something easy to install and Pivot is excellent. It is very nippy- possibly because it uses flat files rather than a database… though of course how well that scales remains to be seen but I think not a while. Its very easy to customise – I’ve added Google Analystics, a Flickr link and Technorati to it. So if you’re looking for a poweful but easy to use, install and configure multiple blog system, give pivot a try.

The version of Pivot I’m using – the latest is 1.3RC2 (Release Candidate 2) which means well past Beta and almost full release. I’ve found (possibly) one bug with the pinging urls but that easy worked around using the 3rd party Pinging services of Pingoat.com or pingomatic But Pivot itself has proved very stable and robust.