I’ve made the switch from using MovableType as the “engine” that runs this site to WordPress. A couple years ago, I had been keeping an online journal and had started out using the b2 blogging engine. Soon after I started though, development seemingly died on that project and when I couldn’t get any responses back from the developers I decided to move on. I switched to MovableType because it seemed a popular choice with an active community, but I still preferred b2 with its dynamic page generation and MySQL backend (lets face it - MT’s rebuilding is just kludgy).

In any case, that previous journal died a quick death after a not so quick divorce. The blog itself was filled with posts and pictures from my “former” life, so I decided to start fresh with a new one. It appears that in my blogging haitus, the folks of b2 have come back with a vengence. WordPress is the successor to b2 and it’s back with active development and a whole new look. Combine that with MT’s shady licencing scheme and the choice to move back was easy.

So far so good. The transition was quite painless and from what I’ve seen so far, WordPress should prove to be much easier to use moving forward. Hats off to the developers for creating an excellent piece of GPL blogging software.