It’s not me, it’s you, Movable Type™

May 1, 2008

This is an entry about Rosstralia: the site with no comments

I’m sorry MT 4.x. I know we’ve had our problems over the past years, mainly having to do with the upgrade and eventual reinstall headaches you caused and that JavaScript error on my homepage I can’t seem to get rid of. (note: I believe this to be a Reinvigorate error. My apologies to MT. –RG)

We had some really great times! You easily managed two blogs on one page and helped me grow from a boy to a man. I will never forget you and I’m having some guilt cramps from my lack of loyalty to you. But then I remember how I would search your documentation and hit a dead link and feel like throwing my monitor through a window.

I’m rebuilding this little blog as WordPress-powered, as the 2.5 version is pretty smooth and sweet. Since this will happen during my non-work, non-wife, non-TV time, it might take a year. This whole thing needs an overhaul anyway, instead of periodic CSS patching. Oh, how I added padding to things with set widths when I was just a boy! And those ordered lists are terrible!!

However, I have to say MT’s ability to have multiple blogs seamlessly appear on one page is hard to beat. I have yet to crack that code with WP. I guess I’m having trouble saying "Goodbye". But WP seems to be a lot faster and I don’t have to rebuild anything to publish template changes.

And now the tears start.