Mephisto broke for some reason. It may have been the plugin that I was experimenting with. But even when I took it out again, it stayed broken. I kept getting the dreaded 500 error. So I did a clean re-install. The blog itself is now still accessible (although I moved it to chaosanddisorder.net.) But I can’t get into the admin page.

Mephisto is a nice blogging system. Unfortunately, I think that Dreamhost is just not capable of supporting Ruby on Rails, at least not through Fast CGI and Apache. I’m going to take a break from it for now.

Meanwhile, Movable Type 4 has been released. It is the granddaddy of all blogging engines out there. I decided to take it for a spin. Six Apart, the team that created MT, is planning to release most of the source code under the GPL. I was going to wait for this version, but I naturally got impatient.

So far the experience has been pleasant, though a little slow. I don’t know if its just because the Dreamhost server that my account is on seems to be lagging. I dig the idiot-proof installation method, though. I’m sure I’ll be getting my hands dirty sifting through some perl code. I do worry about the likelihood of cruft, given how long MT has been around, but we’ll see.

In the meantime, I’ll need to work on importing all my old blog entries, too. MT can import Wordpress’s WXR file, so I may have to go that route. As for the 30 odd posts I made while using Typo and Mephisto, I may have to just manually convert them. Bleh.