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So I upgraded from Movable Type 3.2 to version 4. Big mistake. The new web management interface is stylish where the old one was a bit crude, but, as is so often the case, at some point in the design process, "pretty" apparently took precedence over "works," and the new interface doesn't. Work, I mean. And it's not even that pretty. Lots of little drop-down menus, dark blue, gray and black, looks like a high-tech mortician's website. But everything is ambiguously labeled, and when you do find something that sounds like what you want, it isn't. The editor is no better than before, only jazzed up and a bit smaller (tiny little buttons are important to design, apparently), which is why I'm writing this in an application called BloGTK, a Gnome blogging frontend. The kicker is that the Quick Post applet, which allows you to "blog" the web page you're browsing without fiddling with cutting and pasting and which I use in 9 out of 10 posts, simply doesn't work. Good job, MT. I'd been considering switching over to Wordpress anyway, but whether I do or not depends on how well the WP import function works. Stay tuned.