Anyone who uses WordPress needs this plugin, it is the Twlight: AutoSave plugin. A cookie is created while you are typing an entry, and then when something goes wrong and your mile-long entry is gone in a flash, Twilight: AutoSave has your entry stored within a cookie which is accessible for a week (long enough to go back in and save it!)
Anyone ever mess with Movable Type? Rose has had been talking, (well writing about would be a better way to state that) about it, so i decided to mess with it today. BAD experience. First off, It took quite a long time to get the program (I guess thats what it would be called) installed, then running. Then I attempted to export the database from wordpress and import it. Guess what! It didn’t work. I’m quite content with wordpress, but I am still interested in Movable Type. If anyone knows of a tutorial or walkthrough of how to convert wordpress posts to MT posts, please share with me.
EDIT: I already know about MikeT of Codemonkeyrambling’s tutorial. It failed to work for me.
Anyways, on a more non-techy note, I am half-way through finals week. I was able to finish my speech, and managed around 8 minutes in length (pretty good without using notecards). Tomorrow, Friday, and Monday are the days I am dreading the most. Spanish finals, days of preterite, imperfect, subjunctive, and perfect past tenses and then future, subjunctive, imperfect the oh so wonderful tenses of the present and future! I am dreading it. I was planning on taking Spanish V and VI next year, but I’m not too sure anymore, considering my poor ability to remember tenses, but luckily I can understand and somewhat speak and write it.
Out of curiosity, which of these appeals to you more?
The one on the left is our families dog, Sasha, and the dog on the right is our my sister’s friend Robby’s dog. There was a poll on MyYearbook and Sasha won by close to 83%. I just want to see if the same views hold true elsewhere.
Awesome plugin! I’m definitely going to take a look at that one. The number of times WordPress has locked up and lost a post is very few, but the times it has done so it was frustrating nonetheless! The WP 2.0 support is beta, but I’ll definitely give it a try sometime soon.
And definitely the one on the left. I think for some reason the photo on the left looks almost professionally done and Sasha’s just plain cuter.
Hey there Nick, I found my way here from Jem’s blog while just randomly browsing around. It seems we share the same birthday, hehe. I’m three years older, though, but anyway. And yes, Sasha for the win, there’s no doubt about that. *pets*
I just tried it on my fiance’s blog, and my export script worked just fine. I had no problems importing her entries into a new installation of Movable Type. If you’re getting compilation errors, it’s probably because you don’t have it in the right directory. It should be in the same directory as wp-config.php. If you have split up your wordpress installation, that’s probably why it doesn’t work for you. Feel free to post the error message on that entry on my blog.
Yeah, the plugin’s really great. It keeps me from crying out and hitting my computer and throwing it around until it becomes bits and pieces.
I haven’t messed around with Movable Type yet, although I’ve thought of installing it when I was still hosted a long time ago. Since I met WordPress, I never thought of using another script/program for my blog. ^_^ Good luck with making things right to run smoothly though.
Ahh, school, school. Puh-leese! *closes eyes and mind*
As I’m a dog-lover by nature, I’d choose both. Sasha’s more attractive and her picture is well-photographed, so I guess that’s why more people chose her.
Hey, i was checking out movable type as well but instead went with cutenews because its easier to incopperate with my site. but if i come accross anything i will be sure to pass it on. nice layout i love the picture!
oh my gosh, a speech? i could never do a speech, i hate speaking in front of large crowds. and i like the first picture with the pretty leaves.
Thanks for the autosave plugin.
I’ll definitely use it. I always hated it when firefox closes on me randomly. 
I think Sasha’s the cuter dog. 
Good luck with finals! Mine for the semester ended Thursday. I feel your pain with the verb tenses, though, although in French instead of Spanish. Heh. Most of our midterm for that was subjunctive.
I love dogs, so I don’t want to choose between the two haha. I think I like Sasha’s picture more, but it’s also a better quality picture.
that seems like a great plugin thanks. i completely forgot the tenses so now i’m kind of struggling in class. and i like sasha
Great plug-in! (: Thanks for sharing
that twilight thing is a big help to me! I’m already using it ,, I like sasha..
In case you didn’t see it, I posted a response to your comment about what was wrong with your importing.
Ah, language exams. I take French and it’s probably my favourite subject. I had my oral exam just a few days ago, and that wasn’t pretty – I ended up losing the words I wanted on the spot. I hope you do well, good luck! (:
That sounds like a cool plugin, I’ll have to check it out. I barely lose my WordPress entries and if I ever happen to, my blogs are relatively short and pointless, so it doesn’t really bother me. lol
Best of luck on your remaining finals. As for the photos of the dogs, I’d go with the one on the left, Sasha.
Thanks for the plugin’s link
I’ll be sure to use it when I move to wordpress next time. Hehe. I’ve never used movabletype before, so I don’t know what it’s like 
Goodluck with your finals, by the way. My exams are starting soon. So yea. BOOO. And I love Sasha better. She looks sooo cutee o.O
The new version of WordPress already has a autosave feature – so no point in installing all sorts of plugins.
Good luck on the rest of your finals. As for the dogs I can’t decide. They are both really cute Robby’s dog is awesome – I love “grande” dogs – Sasha is fluffy and that is a cute factor. I would say Sasha is the cutest but I would rather want Robby’s dogster.
@Nan: I figured that when I updated to v2.1, but then I saw that it only auto-saved on the WYSIWYG editor, and I HATE it. So Twilight Auto-save is good for me.
Ooo, that plugin sounds awesome but the link doesn’t work, I’ll have a look on google in a sec. Movabletype.. hmm, I’ve used it before but I’m not keen on it, I much prefer WordPress, some of the things on movabletype annoyed me and could have been done alot better.
Wow.. the auto save plugin is really cool! Sadly all my stuff was gone after the hack of my hosting company’s server =(
Anyway, I think Sasha is cuter xDxD