Labda Hata Mimi

Wow, that was a huge waste of time. I just spent 3 hours futzing with mod_rewrite trying to get it to forward everything from my old MT blog to this one. I ended up with a compromise–use symlinks for the archives and rewrite for the feeds. *Long drawn sigh* Among other issues mod_rewrite *requires* symlinks on which I disabled after I decided that I didn’t want to do symlinks the first time. Arn’t symlinks in www directories sort of a security threat? I mean, people can do amazing little things with them. For a while I was sharing mp3s with a simple symlink over a samba mount. Simple and effective enough.

On the positive side WordPress is much much cleaner than Movable Type. It also doesn’t feel like the devs are trying to keep me cornered with it’s interface. The PHP instead of perl helps too. I’m much more at home with php. I haven’t used any more modern blogging system than MT 2.6 before, wow this is the shaz. Everything from post passwords, simple multiple categories, atom feeds, (I wonder if it has the atom commenting interface).

On the plugin side I’d love to see wikipedia style commenting. They had a few plugins that explode out the html, the syntax for the ones I checked was overly complicated. I just want brackets & pipes for links, asterixes for li, etc. Everything else HTML will do. Also Spellcheck requires pspell compiled into php which I don’t have and don’t want to break my solid automatically updating debian-stable-backport I have set up by doing a compile so I’ll have to do without that. Makes no sense to me why it’d have such strict requirements.