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I don’t know why I entitled this post the way I did, nor do I know why now after months of ignoring this site I’m planning a redesign.

Could it be that now I’ve quit my job I have so much more time that I can actually think, and now translate that into writing?

Not sure.

I have enough actual work to do to keep me busy; what with the music store, my guitar students, the publishing company we’ve just started, and everything else that I was already involved in.

It seems so much easier now, though. No longer working for wages, wondering exactly how we’ll make it. Even with all the questions life is better. Is it faith? Stupidity?

Probably some fluctuating combination of the two.

Regardless, I apologise for my neglect, especially to my brother Nick. I think Letters from Outer Space was my idea even. It’s been over two months since we’ve corresponded.

There’s a lot of life that I have to catch up on. I hope to keep you all involved in the process.

I’ve been working with Wordpress for a week now, and I’m having trouble deciding if I made the right move by switching from Movabletype. There are definite benefits, but also a few drawbacks. I’m especially curious about my decision because I hadn’t really given the newest version MT a thorough test-drive. Anyway- here are some of my thoughts.

+1 Auto-Save

I love this feature (although I’m pretty sure it was also implemented in the newest release of MT). I can’t say how many times I’ve started a post, then been logged out for whatever reason and lost an entire post in MT. Wordpress doesn’t do it often, but often enough while I’m writing so that I at least don’t have to start completely anew.

+1 k2

The guys over at binarybonsai have done an excellent job putting together a nice, flexible framework for WP blogs. It’s really nice looking without any tweaks at all too, which is something I was sort of looking for. I’m still sort of digging in, so I don’t have much to say other than my first impressions are positive.

+1 Email to blog

I’ve wanted this feature in MT for forever. It’s not always prudent to log into your private blog and start typing away, but if your entry could be cleverly disguised as writing an e-mail…

-1 Template Tags

It’s mainly due to a lack of familiarity, I guess, but I just found customizing templates in Movabletype to be so much easier and so much more natural to me. The fact that I still only know the very basics of PHP isn’t much of a help either, but I think MT is a little more user friendly in this regard.

-1 No multiple blogs

One of the things I loved about MT was the ability to use multiple blogs on the same MT installation. It was just another way to further organize my data and made blog-specific formatting really easy. Rather than adjusting the formatting based on category.

That about wraps it up for now. To tell the truth, this post has been almost three weeks in the making, so I’ve totally lost my train of thought here. I may come up with some more comparisons later, but for now I think I’ll just publish this nonsense so that you all can read it.

Wordpress.  Why?  For a few reasons, I guess.  Mainly I think I just wanted something new. After a couple of years of tweaking around with Movabletype, I’ve decided to move on to new territory.  It was totally not an emotional decision.  For the for the first time in quite a while, I’m pretty happy with a cookie-cutter website.  The guys over at K2 have worked really hard at getting a great functional base down, as well as a great-looking default stylesheet, and I’m glad to enjoy the fruits of their labors.  Anyway, now that I have a functional new CMS, I hope to write a bit more.  Of course, that’s always the dream isn’t it?

I think I copied over all the permalinks for the RSS feeds, but I’m not sure.  If someone who typically reads me in Newsfire or GoogleReader or any other RSS reader please be so kind as to drop a comment so that I know I’m being heard?

If I don’t get any I might have to resort so sending out some e-mail; and nobody wants that right?  Thanks in advance