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How I built my blog in one day

http://erjjones.github.com/blog/How-I-built-my-blog-in-one-day
How I did this blog is nothing new, as a matter of fact many have done exactly what I did and it is well documented. This post is just on how I did it and since it is all very fresh in my mind I thought I would write a post about it. For other tutorials on how to do this checkout these:

Create Your Own Posterous with Jekyll, PHP, Mailgun, and S3 : jazzychad's blog

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/03/12/create-your-own-posterous.html
A few weeks ago, I decided to create an email-powered blog that is hosted in an Amazon s3 bucket as a website. I wanted to be able to email new posts to the blog and have them published automatically. I use the email subject line as the title of the post and the email body as the text of the post (written in markdown).