I am very seriously considering taking RW's advice. Without upgrading to the not-free Movable Type 3.?, I will continue to fight the spam wars from a disadvantage. Those internal sever errors you get when you post a comment (and that we get when we add a post)? I'm sick of them. I think the Berkley database system, combined with a somewhat weak host server are the culprits. I could re-configure Movable Type to work with MySQL, but it would be hard, and what if it didn't work?

So, I've installed Wordpress 2.0.3 and I'm in the process, between working on my other projects, of installing the needed plugins, and going through the laborious proecess of reproducing the site themes. Meantime, I've registered a new URL, reflective of the fact that this site isn't just "smijer" any longer.

I won't be porting all of the archives to WordPress. I see no point in it, and I don't wish to kill links to the old pages. So, the MT version of the blog will continue as an archive.

If you don't want to read (or write, Buck & RSA) t-t-t on Wordpress, now's the time to register your objections.

(P.S. I just looked at the default template file for the page header alone on the WP dashboard... did I mention that I dislike PHP?)