Organizational Fetish
I'm obsessed by the organizational process of managing my personal knowledge, I imagine it's where my love of wiki comes from. I thought for a while that it was the generic management of knowledge that fascinated but I'm not a good librarian, it's specifically about me. Several times I've tried to move away from MoinMoin for some new promising application but I've learned to be suspicious of those desires, Moin has served me incredibly well and every time I try to migrate I simply waste a lot of time and end up back where I started.
With that in mind, I've been keeping my eye on ?PyBlosxom for a long time. I love the simplicity and elegance of the Blosxom approach, using the filesystem to store your MetaData was obvious, but a stroke of brilliance. For example, a frustration I have with Moin is that if I want to change the name of a category I have to change the category tag on every single page which belongs to that category. Admittedly it's easily done with a big of regex magic and some shell code, but the hurdle is large enough that it's a barrier to "doing as you think", you have to be fairly sure before you bother, which again makes you less likely to experiment. In Blosxom a simple rename of a directory suffices.
Roberto Antonio Ferreira De Almeida has just written an image gallery plugin for ?PyBlosxom. It uses directories for albums (similar to iPhoto), stores MetaData using RDFPic instead of EXIF/IPTC and doesn't do thumbnails in a way that will deal with my 1000's of images, but it's a really good start and might do what I need with a bit of poking ...
Update: There are other gallery plugins as well! One from JeremySydik mentioned on the devel list which you can see in action on his blog. And an other in the PyBlosxom plugin registry which you can see in action MagnusNordlander's blog..
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Adam, I know exactly how you feel. My personal Knowledgbase is also stored ala moinmoin. I'm also looking for that perfect gallery program that will allow comments, rotation, thumbnails and cropping of my Sony camera images. (If only I had a clone, I could write it myself 
) - SimonRyan
One day I'll be motivated ... really I will ... <sigh> ... - Adam.