Sent off an email to RMIT ITS to see if I can get a whole internet connection rather than just web access from the labs so that I can access some webspace I have. As I see it the blog and the personal webpage are not too different, the blog just brings in another layer of abstraction from the running of a webpage, automation and ease of use. The blog’s qualities as a particular type of CMS are well known, but I think playing around with some other stuff concurrently with this blog can’t hurt.