Scraggles.com uses opensource technologies that have been hand coded to assemble the site you see. Below is a breakdown of some of the key components and the works they are derived from..
Weblog
The blog pages of Scraggles.com run on a system custom written in mysql & php.
Photo Albums
Scraggles.com's photo albums use an engine derived from photoscript v1.4. This provides automatic thumbnail generation, allowing my to simply upload my pictures and they are resized into thumbnails and part sized images automatically.