So this thing called blogging, it turns out I often don’t like to write these short essays but infrequently. Eric said he thinks that between he and Kyle they have the “most prolific blogging family”. Well then between Derrick and myself I think we have more inactive websites than any other family. I haven’t had a whole lot of time for this site and even less motivation. I was having some problems with Movabletype with themes and pages and I sort of got fed up with dealing with it. I don’t know if this is perception or reality but I feel like blogging software has stagnated over the last year or so as blogs have gone mainstream. All the cool kids are now doing mashups and hanging out on flickr, youtube or facebook. I’ve been using Movabletype since college. The first post on this blog was in August of 2003 and I’ve always liked it because it statically renders html so your website handles traffic much better. The downside is that it isn’t as reactive and it’s a little more challenging to add new technologies like AJAX. Movabletype was the original cool blog software. It’s changed it’s pay structure though what seems like every year and now they’ve open sourced their code base to try and catch up again with Wordpress. For the last while I’ve been telling I’ve been telling my friends to use that if they want to start a blog, use that because there seems to be more free themes and good plugins available. I finally broke down and took sometime today to migrate to Wordpress and grab a new theme. So over the next weeks and months I’ll be tinkering until I come up with something I like. It’s always a big of a pain to add back in the galleries and other “features.”