It’s easy, it’s fun and everyone has got one. What? A blog, of course!
In order to get a new blog, you practically have two sole choices: get one from a blog farm (myspace.com,wordpress.com,blogger.com) or set up one over a server of yours.
Actually, there is a third major way too: you get a free/paid hosting service and set up your blog there. However, this is valid only for those who don’t drool over linux server administration and/or have to guarantee a good response even in presence of lots and lots of connections. So I won’t talk about them
This article (obviously!) will cover the second choice: you get an (not so) old machine, you install Debian on it and then you set up your blog there.

What you need: