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Well if you are just visiting for the first time or just suprised by what you see I have indeed changed this blog to run on Wrodpress instead of my trusty old Movable Type.

I have enjoyed my years running Movable Type but with the 4.0 upgrade I could not get pages to recompile properly. I kept getting 500 errors and could not write a post without a couple of rebuilds and had no luck in finding a fix so I went out and downloaded, installed, imported, and swapped folders and tada, here I am in Wordpress.

All of the links should still work. If not let me know!

I have tried to move all of my blogs over from MT 3.34 to MT 4 and have been fighting for a week now as I can not successfully rebuild my archive pages. I am not some newbie with this having been using Movable Type for three years now so here are my recommendations.

I am right now still struggling with this and have tried everything from reloading my cgi-bin and static files to even recreating a new database and trying to import a blog into a brand new database but still get 500 errors whenever I try to rebuild my archives page. I have been to the movable type forum but the answer that one user gave me did not work although getting rid of bad plugins was a great idea that I had not though of.

1. Setup a new database and do some testing, make a new blog in a new subfolder with a fresh release of MT 4.0 and import your entries and copy your templates over. Check your performance.

2. Take this chance to look at your code and make sure that everything is setup properly in all of your templates. Keep your pages as lean as possible just to make everything work better for your users.

3. Try all of the different browsers and test your code? Do the pages render properly, or just even good enough?

After you have done these test which should only take a couple hours at most then you will feel a lot more confident going forward. The upgrade to 4.0 only takes about 10-20 minutes and that is mostly all of the files copying over FTP.

Not a big fan. I have just this week switched to what seems to be a great upgrade of Microsoft Office 2007.

One thing however that I do not like is the font that looks like clear type all by itself in Outlook. I have changed back from Segoe UI to my old Tahoma that I am already used to.

Do you want Tahoma back? Just go to tools to options and find the following

Now in the advanced options just go to the Appearance options in the middle of the box and set your own font (my choice as you can see is

Tahoma 8pt