A new blogging software suite and a new web host–I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time.

Not that I wasn’t happy with my previous host, because I was. The problem was with Movable Type.

MT is a bear to set up and maintain. I’ve spent more time in the last month cleaning out all the spam and trying to deal with my database than anything else. I’ve been so busy and so damn frustrated with that I haven’t even updated my blog in three weeks.

I’ve been playing around with WordPress and it’s a bazillion times better than MT. It literally took me 3 minutes to set up. That started with downloading the software and ending with logging in. It was that quick, painless, easy…

Unfortunately, my old web host didn’t offer MySQL and php. Now that I’ve got a new host, I’m free to experiment and stuff, and do all the things I’ve always wanted to do.

So here we go. A new beginning.