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I have updated MT on this site more times than I have posted to my own blog in the last 400 days. Good thing I have a blog.

Well, I said somewhere in my prior posts that I probably wouldn't write another blog post until this August, and I guess I was right! I updated the site to MovableType 4 last week, and have yet to get everything smoothed out, but at least there is some novelty to writing a post again. I do like MT4, except for the dropdown menus in the admin interface -- they tend to open when I don't want them to, and fail to close when I want them to... Maybe they'll fix that in MT4.01. I'd consider a switch to Wordpress, but once upon a time, I actually paid for my copy of MT, so I feel that I now should get the most value for my money :).

I would bet that the most common topic of blog entries around the world is apologizing for not blogging more often.  I will not apologize (in this entry), but it has been far too long since my last entry -- on this or any other blog.  It is difficult to find time to update one blog, much less two.  My work blog tends to get more attention (which, in it's current state, is a sad state of affairs), but most of the time, when I think of something to write, and actually have time, I'm at home.  Blogging on my work blog from home smacks of completely unnecessary overtime, so I avoid it at all costs.  When I do get the urge to write at home, I do make a solid attempt.  Unfortunately, as I am not (yet) able to blog my thoughts via ESP, before typing word one, I have to:

1. get to a computer (or grab my notebook) 
2. possibly boot the computer (or resume on the laptop)
   
3. wait for the OS to boot
4. wait for the OS to become usable (esp. Windows XP)
5. load up the MT interface, or start w.Bloggar
6. write!

Best case is that I'm already on my laptop.  Worst case is that I have a ~5-10m delay between the idea and having some way of writing it down.  I know, I know... there is always paper and pen, but I never think that way when I want to blog :).

After a long hiatus, I've finally got the ol' home use blog back up and running. The last time I stopped was right after MT 3.11 was released, which was a long time ago. I just got around to updating to MT 3.2 about two months ago, and then had a bunch of problems trying to get Stylecatcher to properly apply themes to my new blog. I'm not sure what the actual issue was, but it was solved by deleting the existing blogs from the site (there was no content anyway), then recreating them. Now Stylecatcher works like a charm, and it's time to start installing loads of useful plugins, until something else malfunctions, and I leave the site untouched for another three months</cynicism>.