Only the properties of each weblog account are stored. No weblog entries are stored on this webserver, so in theory a huge number of weblogs could be hosted. When a certain page is requested, an account specific function is used to determine the time each blog entry is posted. This time is used as a random seed to select a topic and to generate the text with the Dada Engine.

Several webpages on Amazon, Blogdex, Google, Fark, Gracenote and IMDb are periodically visited by a bot that harvests recent gadgets, memes, news, music and movies.
mod_rewrite is used to simulate the URLs of different blog tools.

Templates are generated by a script that uses the template id as a random seed.

E.g. consider this entry:

August 2, 2003 - 11:35
'La Hija del canibal'
Last night I went to the movies and saw 'La Hija del canibal'. I had a good time. Carlos Álvarez-Novoa's performance is terribly poor. But the cinematography and the script are pleasant.

A function determines that the 7th entry in this blog is posted on August 2, 11:35. This time is used as a seed for the random generator.
From the available topics for this blog the category 'movie' is randomly chosen and a movie that was released the week before August 2 is selected from the database, in this case 'La Hija del canibal'. This database is filled by a bot that monitors the IMDb periodically.
The information about the movie, like title, director (Antonio Serrano) and main actors (Cecilia Roth, Carlos Álvarez-Novoa, Kuno Becker) is then passed to the Dada Engine movie script which looks like this.

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