I have not published any post recently as I was busy in swtiching the blog systerm from Movable Type to WordPress. The installation of WordPress 1.2 was easy to accomplish (not so easy in the previous versions though). But I still got the following problems to solve:

• incorporating my photoblog — a little bit troublesome, but can be finished
• permalink structure — I am now forced to have the /index.php/ in the permalink since I am not able to add .htaccess file without making a 403 error in reading the index.php. Perhaps something with the mod_rewrite feature. I may have to switch to another hosting company to solve this problem
• RSS feed — same problem with the mod_rewrite feature
• finding a great CSS template to steal. I have the present Plain Blue style from the WordPress CSS Style Competition

Besides changing the publishing system, I also merged my “movie notes” blog into the main blog and change the character encoding to UTF-8.

Although I like Slashdot a lot, it is time to change the theme of this site. I have adopted this new style called Modern Lines, which was downloaded from Movable Style.

I finally made the Links page, and moved some of the links on the right hand column to this new section. A new technique, which I heard from web-graphics is also applied.

There seems to be a problem with my movabletype. The layout of the login screen looks strange, so does the New Entry screen. But the blog itself is fine …

I have to seek help in the official forum.

UPDATE (24.12.2003): Gee, it’s so simple. I deleted the style.css file from the mt-static directory when I amend the stylesheet. Thanks to charle97 in the official forum.

It has been a long time since I have changed the outlook of this blog.

This new theme, obviously inspired by Slashdot, was downloaded from Movable Style, a website with a few themes which are easy to implement for movable type blogs.

It also has a cool theme based on The Matrix Reloaded called Matrix Code.