What's a phlog?  It's my term for a gopher-based personal journal or log.
Just like Web + Log became "blog", Gopher + Log becomes "phlog".  Sort
of.  The difference is - for now - there is no feedback mechanism.  But
the drivel is still there so read on if you're so inclined...

 * update *

Since I'm no longer self-hosting a gopherd the SiMpLe MaChInEs project is
more or less defunct.  However vanity compells me to add the following for
posterity:

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from SiMpLe MaChInEs first month's phlog file:

Tue Apr 22 18:53:13 EDT 2003
I downloaded the NetBSD port of gopherd the other day. gopherd is
the University of Minnesota's gopher server. I got it set up on an
old Sun SPARCstation 2: it was very easy to do. I think I'm going
to tighten it up a bit and link to it from the SDF Gopher.  What
to put on it is still up in the air: I'd kind of like to get the
old 4.4-BSD Manual pages on there, plus some of my hard won knowledge
regarding old Sun Sparcs. I may move my Blog there too. Actually,
"Blog" may not even be the right term, since blog is a shortening
of "web log" and "web" suggests WWW and http. So - just what would
"gopher log" shorten to? Maybe 'Phlog'? :j

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Extensive searching suggests I am the originator of the term 'phlog'.