Thinking about setting up a quick and secure weblog to store notes and reminders at home. What's the easiest way?

A big constraint is that the only computers I have that run all day are a Linux box at home and a FreeBSD box on the other side of the world. So it has to run on UNIX. I want it to be totally web-accessible as well, so [[bzero]] is out.

Also, it has to support HTTPS, and some reasonably decent form of authentication. HTTP digest would be fine. IMHO that won't be susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks, even if I can't verify the HTTPS certificate. Can someone confirm this?

Roughly, the choices are [[Movable Type]] (Perl, CGI, data in dbm files) and [[b2]] (PHP, data in MySQL). I'm ruling out the popular combination of [[PyDS]] and [[PyCS]] because I don't want to run two extra Python processes on either server.

Movable Type is easier to get going, because I don't need to bother with the database. However, b2 keeps everything (viewing, editing, commenting) all in one place, which makes the security rules easier. I guess I could do that with a separate MT install, though.

More when I actually set this thing up.