state of the weblog

So, I believe a few announcements are in order, given the things that have been going on here over the past few days/weeks.
1. First and foremost, I have convinced WizardPC to start guest-authoring here periodically. Regular readers of SayUncle are already familiar with his name, but for those philistines out there, WizardPC is a gifted writer who has been keeping very close tabs on the political and legislative situations here in Tennessee, especially concerning the movements to expand/preserve our rights. The incessant, outright idiocy of those who oppose those movements (namely, our governor, some of our legislature, and most “authorized journalists” here in TN) has finally driven WizardPC to blogging for himself, and I am very happy and honored to serve as host for him. For some reason, he refuses to agree to my seventeen-posts-a-day contract, but expecting a few posts a week out of him (once he gets up to speed) might not be unreasonable.
As always, the author of each individual post is on the line immediately underneath the post title – paying attention is now strongly suggested.
Shane still has author privileges here as well, though he has not been posting/commenting much of late.
2. The “addThis” script (or whatever it was called) has been removed from this webpage. Either its scripting, or its images, were causing my site to load remarkably slowly, and I am fairly certain that they were also causing problems on the back end as well. It might have been the way I installed/implemented it, but, in any case, it is gone. No one really used it anywise.
Likewise, FeedBurner support has been removed. No one really used that either, and if you want to subscribe to my RSS feeds, you can do so in the column to the left.
3. Commenting is still unmoderated and available to any users (so long commenters provide a valid email address (that email address will never be published or sold, it just cuts down on spam)), but, if you are so inclined, you can also register with this particular weblog through its native system, or you can log in and comment through OpenID, LiveJournal, Vox, or Type Pad. Additionally, I just found out MovableType supports commenting through Google, Yahoo!, AIM, WordPress.com, Yahoo! JAPAN, livedoor, Hatena, mixi, and Facebook, so if anyone wants to use those registration systems as well, let me know (they are off for the time being, especially since I have never heard of three of those).
4. The gerbil-on-a-wheel that powers MovableType has been coming off his rails more often than not recently, so I will be doing some tinkering in the near future to address that. The hyperlinks for actual posts will not change, but category/date/author archive pages may behave somewhat strangely for the next few days/weeks.
Speaking of, though, does anyone know how hard it is to convert from MovableType to WordPress? Specifically, I am concerned about site themes, post link addresses (namely, that they do not change), and exporting/importing somewhere over 1500 posts. More and more, converting is seeming like a good idea…
5. Also, in the past month or so, I ticked past 1500 posts. For 3.5 years of writing, including two sizeable gaps when I was bobbing around on the ocean, that is not too bad…