Because Gimp 2.0 doesn’t support the Windows icon format yet, I looked for another way to create a favicon.ico file with Gimp running under Mac OS X. The Web recommends at least three different conversion tools for this task: ppmtowinicon is said to have problems with transparency xpm2wico is not available as a Fink package png2ico did the trick for me

I have evaluated a weblog software for a server without fancy options like CGI, Perl or PHP. I found BlogMax, Nanoblogger and Thingamablog and chose Nanoblogger for its Spring Theme and because it stores the entries in flat files.