germ-0.1 alpha release
(c) 2009, Wesley Teal, wt@sdf.lonestar.org

"Let your ideas germinate."

Germ (as in the germ of a seed, or an idea) is a dynamic glogging/phlogging 
script written in perl.  It has the capability to display posts individually 
and together on a page with a customizable header and a customizable divider 
between posts.  It also archives older posts and can accept comments on 
individual posts.  Germ owes its inspiration to the perl weblog engine 
"blosxom" originally authored by Rael Dornfest.

This is an alpha release.  While germ seems to be fairly stable, it still needs 
testing and refinement.  Nothing is guarnteed to work and if it does, it's 
still not guarunteed to work properly.  If you find any bugs or want any 
particular features, please email me at the address listed above.

Germ has been tested and works with the Bucktooth gopher server (buckd).  It 
has also undergone limited testing with the Geomyidae gopher server.  It works 
fine with Bucktooth (you can find a working example here: 
gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/1/users/wt/phlog.cgi).  It does strange things with 
Geomyidae.  I think (and I could be very wrong) that this is due to Geomyidae 
expecting it to be a shell script (which it's not).  It has not been currently 
tested with other servers, but should hypothetically work with any server that 
allows perl cgi.

To install, see: INSTALL
To use germ, see: HOWTO
To see the (re)distribution terms, see: LICENSE
To see known issues, see: BUGS
To find out roughly what's coming in germ's future, see: TODO
