We Are Upgraded to MovableType 4.0...

It took a while.

I figured 'Hell, I'm a high-end techie, I don't need no stinkin' instructions'
I then destroyed the blog so bad I couldn't get back in to edit or fix it.
I reinstalled one of the 3.x versions to get access piece by piece using FTP.
I then followed the directions.
I now have Movable Type 4.0

Then it wouldn't rebuild until I took out SiteMeter....

So no site info for the time being....

Then when it finally did rebuild, it maxed out the available space on my Movable Type server because it archived not only individual entries, as I want, but also daily and weekly entries by default...about another 20 megs of archives I don't need.
So I got rid of them and found where these unwanted configs were buried in the program and got rid of them.

I'm also thinking of moving my archives to the local machine I use as a picture dump.  That would save 30megs of space on the MovableType server.

Before I do that I've lots of other things to tweak.  Archives are acting squirrelly anyway, I don't know how the comments will work, and I just need to spend some time playing with it.

Believe it or not, but this blog takes now up 55 megs on a server hosted by an ISP (and that doesn't include the 1.41 Gigs of music, pictures, et al, that can be accessed on a local server that I use as a data dump for the blog).  More than 30 megs on the commercial server are archives.  I only buy 60megs on his servers. 

Something needs to be done, I reckon, but i'm already spending $85 a quarter to host this hobby.  That's $85 a quarter I can't spend on ammo.

Now it lets you make comments, and apparently html tags work, and it previews...but the preview window is tiny and the comments post but appear to the commenter that they hang.  Be afraid, be very afraid.

Update:  I've gotten the comment preview screen to show something larger than a postage stamp, and I've put sitemeter back on altho it still throws errors when I rebuild the blog...I've got an email into the sitemeter people.  We'll see how this goes. I also see that the Firefox blogging software isn't quite compatible.

Well the sitemeter tag is a serious problem. The individual entries won't update with new material, new pages won't appear on the blog, and the archives get frozen in place with no apparent updates. That tag has to go.