Tired...
I am so tired... I was up till midnight last night playing around with MoveableType. I see that Justin has moved to it and I've been thinking about trying it because I'm getting annoyed at the Radio style of blog maintenance (local http server).
You see, I've got Radio running on my home machine. I've configured it for remote access and opened the proper ports on my firewall to allow me to post from work if something interesting pops up. The trouble is, the kids occasionaly hop on my computer while I'm at work. It really doesn't happen too often, but it always seems to be when there's something I want to post! Anyway, they don't use my login (I don't want a 5-year old with administrative access playing around on my machine!). My wife unlocks my login at then logs the kids on. Radio is now down...
Don't get me wrong -- I like Radio. It's super easy to get a blog up and running (and keeping it running). The integrated news aggregator makes it easy to keep up to date. But it would be even nicer if it was a windows service and didn't need an account logged in to use it!
So, I spent a couple of hours getting MoveableType running on a domain I've got that has Perl and MySQL. It really wasn't too hard to configure (tip: read through the installation docs about three times and think about how you're going to do each step). Then sit down and start configuring and uploading your files while reading the instructions for the 4th time. I did this and had only one error -- which was expected since I did some research on my web hosts support forum before installing.
Since getting it up was so easy, I wanted data in it. I spent about an hour and had a quick-n-dirty VB.NET app that reads Radio's XML files and outputs a flat text file in a special MoveableType import format. FTP the flat file up and run the import and I've got most of my Radio blog in MoveableType! It's not quite all smooth sailing. I never used Radio's "Title" feature so my Radio XML data files don't have a title. MoveableType automatically picks the first 5 words from an un-titled post and creates a title. Not the best choice, but I can go back and massage the data (I've only been blogging since late June -- it won't be so easy for others!)
I'm going to play around with MoveableType's templates this weekend to see what I can come up with. Time for bed...
11:43:18 PM 
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