I've searched out and tried no less than 5 different solutions to syndicate this blog in to an XML feed so RSS aggregators (such as FeedDemon) can read this blog. None of them have gotten the job done for me.
I did find one, called RSSify, that seemed to work when running the script on their server. But when I ripped out the PHP script they made available so I could run it on my server, I started getting all sorts of weird PHP errors. I don't know a lot about PHP, so I wasn't able to fix the problem. IMO, it's a heck of a lot easier (and more informative) to write your own under these circumstances since debugging a language you're not too good at can be an exercise in futility.
I've found some great resources on the format of an RSS 1.0 XML feed, so I guess that's the direction I'm headed in. I guess writing a comments system will have to wait for now, because I'm more interested in doing this.
Hooray for string parsing.