Because I’m always late, I just updated to Wordpress from Movable Type on the advice of a good friend, who is probably used to me taking advice several months after the fact by now. Wow, this thing is pretty nice. Apart from a stupid problem which I solved by finding the right link, the installation and import went pretty smoothly. The broken dashboard was a php problem, thank god for blogging gentoo hackers.
Anyone who doesn’t understand how apache and mysql work together might stay away from rolling your own and find a good bloghost that supports WP, though following the docs will probably get you pretty far. I ended up having to install libxml2 and the php xml foo, but that’s about it.

I sure am liking it so far!