*Cue everyone screaming as their brain is taken over with Tom Cochran’s “Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long.”*

That of course is a gross oversimplification of the matter, but suffice to say, I have removed all “target” attributes from all my links. This means that none of my links will open in new windows unless you take some action to make it so. The links are free from oppression! Enjoy the brave new world of choice!

I personally use Mozilla Firefox and ctrl-click or click the middle mouse button if I want a link to open in a new window. Even better is that the Tabbed Browser Extensions plugin for Firefox has many settings allowing you to control the opening of new windows. I love the setting that automatically opens links that refer to external sites (sites other than the one I’m browsing) in a new window, or a new background window.

So far, I’m quite happy. I foresee Movable Type quite possibly being totally abandoned by me for Wordpress in the near future, but we shall see after a much more in depth and extended usage test. Why? Well, Wordpress has many things going for it:

• It’s free and open source, yet still quite robust, with great features plus many more available via plugins
• I’ve read that the community is really great. Bugs are addressed in a timely manner and since it’s open source, anyone who knows what they’re doing can help improve it and write great plugins for it.
• It uses php to generate web pages on the fly. No static pages just taking up your web space. It also generates in strict compliance with web standards! Wooot!
• Once I got past the initial learning curve of staring at some php and going “duhhhhhhh” I found it actually much easier to setup, maintain, customize, hack, and manipulate than MT. Surprisingly simple and lean. When I though of a feature I wanted but it didn’t have, I quickly and easily found a plugin, installed it and had it working in the blink of an eye. I easily uninstalled and reinstalled several times. It was only a matter of minutes before I was completely back up and running again. The one or two times I had to start Movable Type from scratch were a huge pain, and I try to avoid it at all costs.

All in all, I’m extremely impressed so far, but just want to take some time and make absolutely sure before I do a total switch.

At the top of the page is the form to sign up for new ENTRY notification. When I make a new entry you will be emailed.

On the individual entry pages there are check boxes which will subscribe you to any comments posted to that entry if you check the box and post a comment. Be aware that if you use the “preview” function, you will need to check the box on that page before you click “post”. There are also fields where you can enter your email and subscribe to comments on that entry without posting a comment yourself, and a field to subscribe to all comments posted to any entry on that blog.

This page and my “Human” page are technically separate blogs so you’ll have to sign up for each one separately if you want notifications on both. I hope this doesn’t sound too confusing, because it really isn’t. Let me know if you find any bugginess, or problems with receiving the notifications you want.

I would also like feedback as to whether you would like entry and comment notifications to remain separate. I could change the blog subscription field to instead subscribe you to all entries AND comments by default (which you could then change later). As it stands now, if you wanted to be notified of all new entries and all new comments you would need to sign up for entries at the top of th4e page, and all comments on the comments page.