I recently mentioned in passing that if I wasbuilding a file based blog engine today, I would do a number of thingsdifferently than they are now. Given that file based blog engines are eternally popular , here's my list of thosethings.

First and foremost, I would not use file metadata for anything, mostespecially the file date. Using the date of an entry's file as theentry's date is superficially attractive but in practice it complicatesyour life quite a bit and it clashes badly