This is my first post using MovableType. I wasn't really sure that I would like it at first, but I decided I had better try it since most of the people that whose blogs I read use it too. I started out writing my own which I quickly gave up on since I would have literally wasted the entire summer away hacking away at it. I almost used BBlog which was very easy to set up and really nice, but just isn't mature enough for me. I decided that I could live without threadded comments, which was the final factor in making the move with MT.
To begin with, I installed a copy on my computer at home to play with things like the stylesheet and learn how to configure a blog. Then I copied everything over to the web server. Funny thing is on my home computer I could get BerkeleyDB to work, but didn't have the MySQL Perl module. The server had no BerkeleyDB, but MySQL works fine.
