So assuming all has gone well, the old Movable Type site is but a memory now. Gone to spend more time with its family.

The new shiny WordPress install has taken its place and if this shows up in your feed reader then I did a decent job of not breaking anything.

It is with a teeny measure of sadness that I've made the decision to move from Movable Type to WordPress. This is probably the last post I'll make from my old stalwart system.

So why move now? Well, two reasons really.

Firstly my hosting provider Pair, while excellent in every way, don't like mt-comments.cgi at all. Their system reaper process will kill anything using up system resources on the machine. So adding comments to any of my posts was always a bit hit & miss, sometimes it would work, sometimes you'd get the lovely internal server error. All a bit frustrating really.

Secondly, my version of Movable Type went end of life a while ago. No more security updates will be produced and you're basically on your own and good luck with that. Further, there's no upgrade path even if I wanted to continue with MT. The free single user license is no more. Sure you can get Movable Type 6.0 but I'm not shelling out $595. I'm funny like that.

So, it seems the choice is obvious as there is really only one game in town these days. I installed WordPress the other day and have been tinkering and tweaking and it's almost at the point where I'm ready for it.

So, you WordPress users out there, what plugins would you recommend I install?

Hacker in training.

My first shot with my new 50mm f/1.8 lens.
As mentioned in how to take good photos for under $1000 "It's made of cheap plastic on the outside, but on the inside it's made of pure photolookbetterium".

I'm still working on that second part as getting decent auto focus with the aperture wide open is really hard.

A little Saturday post processing with breakfast.