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I installed new blogging software today, giving Movable Type the flick in favour of Word Press.

Word Press is a little less polished, but it is free of overly restrictive licensing requirements and it should be a little easier to modify how the software works given that it is written in PHP instead of Perl (this is not a “Perl is executable line noise” troll, I just have a couple of orders of magnitude more experience in PHP. Incidentally, if you want to annoy a PHP fanboy, start comparing the relative maturity of CPAN and PEAR).

I was a little curious as to how many people had either not bothered to remove the default first posting, or had installed the software and then abandoned it. A Google search for “Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!” returns just under 10 000 results.

At least Word Press randomly generates a password for the default account, unlike Movable Type. I wonder how many blogs you can still log into with Melody/Nelson.

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