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Blogs used to be called Web logs, which was a straightforward description of what they were: sequential, time-based personal jottings, where you just kept adding entry after entry in a linear fashion. Now, what does that remind you of? A diary, right?

But these days blogs have long since evolved away from something that most closely resembled an online diary, into something that’s more like a multifunctional Web site. Nevertheless, blogs still make brilliant diaries. The trouble is, of course, that by default everyone gets to see what you write in your blog. One way round this is to download WordPress and install it locally on a PC, so that only someone logged onto that machine can access it. But that involves using something like XAMPP to install Apache Web server and MySQL.

A much easier way is just to sign up for a free blog at wordpress.com and then make particular posts, or the whole thing, private – as described in this WordPress video: