About a blog

This is the first post on my new blog, so I may as well start out by explaining how this thing got here.

So, I've never actually had my own blog before. I've set up blogs for others and I've played around with different blogging software, but when it came time to create my own, it took me a while to decide how to power it. I started with a list of criteria for I wanted for my CMS:

• Is secure
• Allows user comments
• Provides some sort of caching (of DB queries, rendered pages, whatever) to help the site scale
• Can be extended and has a code base I'd actually want to extend
• Stores templates in the filesystem, not in the DB
• Can be deployed in a shared hosting environment
• Is free or inexpensive and is open source

I also had one other sort of "bonus" criteria which I didn't insist on but which would be nice:

• Is written in python