Redecorating

As you’ve probably noticed, things are looking a bit different around here. Having concluded that I can’t easily fix my Movable Type installation, I spent my afternoon playing with Blosxom, then my evening playing with WordPress, which is the system I’ve decided to go with for the time being.

I’ve concentrated on configuring the software thus far, so there’s no actual content to read yet. I’m not quite done yet: I’m going to have to spend time tomorrow setting up my sidebar, amending the style sheet to something I can live with and what have you. In the meantime, assuming that this article actually shows up when I click on the Post button I do at least have a working weblog again. (What I’ll do about the more than three years-worth of content that’s locked in my Movable Type installation is a question for another day. For now it’s still there in the form of static HTML pages, but any attempt to use Movable Type’s features is likely to work intermittently at best, and Movable Type’s comments system is completely dead.)

Comments on this new version of my weblog should be working, but they do function somewhat differently now: I’ll say more about this tomorrow, but for now just follow the instructions shown on the comments page and everything should be fine. If you should find yourself blocked from posting a comment, email me and I’ll see what I can do.

I expect that things will return to normal some time tomorrow, so tune in then for some actual content. Yes, really.