While I can't think of anything much more boring than blogging about blogging, I will do it just briefly because here there might be a few useful bits of information here that are useful...

I just switched from MovableType 4 to WordPress and am overall very pleased. It's faster, cleaner, simpler, and seems to have a stronger community. It's PHP based, which I much prefer to MT's weird template tags. A couple of pitfalls:

If you are like me and like to write your entries in raw HTML, there are a couple of things you need to do:

• Go to 'Users', click 'Edit' on your username, and uncheck 'Use the visual editor when writing'
• Download the Raw HTML plugin.
• Or, better yet, use my hacked version which is always on (i.e., doesn't require the magic 'raw' comment delimiters).

Also, don't mess around with symlinks or .htaccess - this seems to somehow cause problems with deleting comments and posts. If you come from MT, it's tempting to do this because WordPress wants to live under your document root, whereas MT publishes static pages into a separate directory. My advice is to just put WordPress in your public_html dir where it wants to be - it feels weird but it's ok.

Finally, I highly recommend downloading the Persistent Styles Plugin so that you can non-destructively tweak wordpress templates.