To those of you unfamiliar with blogging platforms, this entry will look like that indecipherable text you see on a blue screen of death.  That said, feel free to push the fast forward button here and skip to the last paragraph.

After years of using Movable Type to manage my blog, I have decided to move to WordPress.  I should have migrated years ago; however, it was considerably difficult to move my first blogging platform to Movable Type.   Why move now?  The decision to migrate to WordPress came down to a few things.  First, making custom changes to Movable Type just isn’t simple enough.   It’s considerably easier to add a few lines of PHP to files in WordPress.  Second, WordPress has lots of third-party plugins.  Large developer adoption is more important than the plugins themselves.  Last, it took twenty minutes to switch. That time included exporting and importing data from Movable Type.  The merit of both platforms can be argued at length, but I’ve been in technology long enough to know that if you want to create a robust platform,  keep it simple, make it extensible, and move fast.

Okay so, short story long – I will be moving the deck chairs around a bit.   I will be re-releasing old entries and may add other content from my previous blog in the upcoming months.  Stay tuned.