prairie point

"one-click"

For a long time I have put off upgrading my Movable Type software. That's mostly out of laziness. If memory serves it took me about three or four hours to install it initially. I upgraded it one time and it went fairly smoothly. Since then I have forgotten practically everything about the whole process. (As I get older this seems to be happening to me more and more, especially with computers and software).

I have been reading about various alternatives to Movable Type. Since I only host one blog the pricing of MT doesn't bother me and I don't have any personal axes to grind with the developers. But I always like to use the best product for my needs. That's another decision to make and another opportunity to procrastinate. I have so many other good things to do with my time.

Nevertheless, I probably should either upgrade or move on to something else. Now I have an offer that may be just too good to pass by. The company that hosts this blog has announced a "one-click" installation of WordPress. That is one of the alternatives to Movable Type that some bloggers have been moving to (Joel and Burningbird, just to name a couple examples).

Of course I should be skeptical about the "one-click" part. Around here Tricia and I joke about the shed kit we bought a few years ago. According to the advertisement it could be put together in "four hours." We knew that it was going to take a little longer after it took us almost two hours to unload it from the truck and carry it piece by piece to the backyard. By the time the four hour mark had passed we had identified most of the pieces on the parts list and gathered all the tools. According to the timeline this is when we should be finished, but we had not even put two pieces together yet and we were already tired and ready to call it a day.

Well, to make a long story short we eventually got the shed built, but it took us about four days instead of four hours. It's become a joke between us now.

So I wonder how many hours this "one-click" process would actually take me?

Posted by Bill Hopkins on December 3, 2004 08:49 AM