I think (note the emphasis) I now have this weblog configured the way I want it. And since I'm getting e-mails asking how I liked Movable Type, I thought I'd answer here: I like it fine. Weblog software is a little different from the kind of software one employs to craft a plain, ol' website. For those who don't know, you design a normal site on your computer and then upload its finished pages to the server. With weblog software, you design templates — pages with everything on them except the daily postings — and insert codes where the postings are to go. You upload the templates and then as you write your entries, they go into an online database which constructs the web pages as per the templates. Any time I feel like writing an entry, I can pop up a little window on my desktop, compose that entry (as I'm doing now), hit "post and publish" and — POOF! — it's up on the website. Movable Type inserts the date and builds the archive pages and handles the removal of old messages from the main page as they scroll off. There's more to it than that, of course, but not much.
Constructing the page and getting all the codes formatted was an interesting challenge. The documentation for Movable Type is not as clear as I might have liked but the folks over on its Support Forum are sharp and helpful, and they told me how to do that which I could not figure out on my own. So far, the software has performed without error so I'm happy. Will I remain happy with it? Tune in here for future messages — and not just ones about Movable Type. If there are future messages here about anything, then I'm probably quite happy with Movable Type.