November 9, 2011
by Neil T
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It’s taken me a while, but I’ve finally removed the final traces of the Movable Type/Melody installation from the server, and deleted the databases (after a customary backup of course). It’s been nearly 6 months since I switched away from … Continue reading
October 9, 2011
by Neil T
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Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the first release of Movable Type, which was one of the first well-featured blogging systems for self-hosting users. It allowed people who had hosting space but only limited technical knowledge to blog on their … Continue reading
May 31, 2011
by Neil T
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It is with something of a heavy heart that I’ve decided to abandon Melody and move the blog to WordPress. Long time readers will find this as a surprise – in the past, I’ve defended Movable Type when I’ve felt … Continue reading
May 16, 2011
by Neil T
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Right now I’m not entirely satisfied with how comments are on this blog.
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March 13, 2011
by Neil T
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For the first time in over 8 years, this blog is not running on Movable Type. Because I’ve migrated to Melody.
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September 22, 2010
by Neil T
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Six Apart was a company formed in 2002 to handle the commercial aspects of Movable Type, and later its hosted platform, TypePad. Along the way, it acquired, and then later sold LiveJournal, and also launched a social blogging platform called Vox, which is to close at the end of this month.
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June 19, 2010
by Neil T
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In the hope that it will reduce the current waves of comment spam that I’m receiving, I’ve turned off comments for all entries published prior to January 2009, plus a few published in 2009 that seem to be particular targets.
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April 9, 2010
by Neil T
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I’ve had the plain red default MT4 theme for a couple of years now. So I’ve switched to the light blue variant of it. What do you think?
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September 24, 2009
by Neil T
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7 years ago today, I started using Movable Type.
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September 3, 2009
by Neil T
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It wasn’t that long ago that I upgraded to Movable Type 4.3 – in fact, MT 4.3 was only released about a month ago. However Six Apart have been developing Movable Type 5 in parallel and the first beta version was released yesterday.
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