In 2003 when I was traveling, a good friend took my email travelogue and converted it to a Movable Type blog. It was the early days of blogging software and Movable Type was the pioneer. There have been various renditions of freejen.org since I returned, and this time I was excited to move the site to the Open Source version of Movable Type.
I tried, and I failed.
It’s not that I wasn’t able to get the site up and running again in Movable Type 4.x, it’s just that many features that worked great in releases before 4.x seem to have broken (along with many of the links on the Movable Type.org site). Thus, in acquiescence to the multitude of free WordPress themes, nifty widgets, and pretty admin interface, I’ve crossed over to the darkside.
I’ve always had a very strong aversion to php that is a result of working for many years as a System Administrator, and am generally annoyed by having to use MySQL for a blog (prefer PostgreSQL or better yet sqlite), the reality is that WordPress has more bling.
This is supposed fun, not work. Bling is more fun then beating my head against Movable Type.
And there is a FreeBSD port for WordPress.
Tags: movable type, wordpress
