When Brains Fly

Finally, I have upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4 and installed Akismet seemingly successfully. Spam be gone! I also set up svn upgrading of WordPress so that I don’t have to do so many steps next time around.
For reference, I used:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups to backup my stuff first
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress to do the upgrade
And then realizing that I could upgrade by [...]

I have used 10.73 MB of bandwidth over the last three days based on my web access log. That feels like a lot. I think most of it is due to the large sizes of the WordPress admin php pages. Under NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (NFSN), I am paying based on how much bandwidth I use, which is [...]

After using Movable Type for an hour or so and trying to customize it, I found it to be irritatingly slow. I tried installing the Open Source version, but it was not much faster. It would take around 30 seconds to publish and 20 seconds to go to a different admin page, which got really [...]