Oh The Pain
Silly me. After going through multiple iterations of trying to figure out how to use NetNewsWire and EspressoBlog with Movable Type, I came across the sage advice that one must use a much more updated version of Perl than I had. So, after attempting to install a new version of Perl by myself, and failing miserably, I found that the only way to fix this doom was to find someone who knew something technical. The frog offered his help. It took frog many hours, but he indeed installed the new Perl. Then my blog no longer worked. It was futzed. While all this panic was ensuing, I decided that perhaps I should try to put my blog on the OS X machine, where it would be much easier for me to administer it. After fixing a broken CGI mess (thanks to the O'Reilly information on the web...), I got most of it working, except for one little issue. It seems that the static files weren't loading properly. After going through billions of iterations attempting to fix this, I finally gave up and am going to try to sleep amidst massive snores on the other side of the bed.
So the good news is - the frog has prevailed in fixing everything and my blog is happy. The bad news is... it looks like I'm going to have to fight with MT to get it working on the OS X box. So why am I bothering, given that I have it working fine on the other machine? Uh..... well..... uh..... Because it's there? :-)
Yeah, ok...I'm a nut case. What can I say?