Back (subtitled: MT is gone for good)

Finally I have a blog I can write to again.

The reason for the delay was changing hosting company (the subject of a future post) and moving to one that didn’t support PostgreSQL. I was running an ancient version of MovableType and didn’t have the MySQL schema available, and when I contacted Six Apart they said they couldn’t help.

Reverse engineering a database schema wasn’t my idea of fun, and since the Movable Type version was very old I decided to move. Not being able to make up my mind I have installed Wordpress, despite my previous reservations (and current ones - do these guys know anything about code architecture - the number of includes to dig through from index.php to find any ‘working code’ - or commenting code?) which is working, and an extra PHP file to handle rewriting all the old URLs.

So apologies to any of you who have tried commenting or searching the weblog in the past 3 months - it’s back working now and I will change from this default Wordpress theme once I get my head round things!