I downloaded greymatter to give it a test drive for use at work ( no, not for my site ). It was written in PERL! urgh... a language I've been avoiding to learn... for whatever reason I may have had... ^^.. It turns out that I needed to add a feature to greymatter to make it work at work, so I got a short tutorial from a colleague of mine on PERL and went chugging ... after a few hours I managed to add the feature I wanted ( to be able to categorize entries and browse by categories, etc..).

Noah, the author of greymatter, seems to have temporarily distanced himself from the project for personal reasons... he tells me that the enormous code base makes him a bit nauseous. ;) I think I can sympathize... if he decides to further pursue greymatter, he should really modularize it and make it a little more scalable... but, it looks like it serves the purpose quite well at the moment as a personal journal entry system on a small scale.

For those who think blogger and greymatter are competing environments, I don't think I completely agree ... they are really two very different beasts with their own pros/cons...