I’m going to be upgrading to MovableType 2.2 this evening, doing a backup first and all. There’s a finite chance the database could get zorched, so if you post something this evening and it’s gone tomorrow … well, that’s why.<\/p>\n
And if ***Dave Does the Blog <\/i>is gone tomorrow … well, that’s why, too …<\/p>\n
UPDATE<\/b>: Installation went smoothly, once I had the MySQL stuff figured out (it’s not enought create the database and create the userid, you need to add the user to the database).<\/p>\n
So now I play around with the Trackback and Ping and other interesting stuff this version brings.<\/p>\n
As long as everything works when I click on SAVE …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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