during the last days i made further migration attempts towards movabletype. i deleted everything i had done so far, downloaded it again and started all over from scratch. i even printed the manual! people who know me should laugh now, since the first thing i do whenever i unpack something new or run a new program or whatever it might be is to throw the manual in the corner and give it a first try without. well… certainly not with movabletype, that’s what i had to learn. i really gave it a serious moment and devoted quite some concetration on this project. after 2 hours of consequent working i had everything up and running. my thanks go to the people spending hours in the forum and answering stupid rookie-questions like the ones i posted! nevertheless, for all of you who are planning to install movabletype, i give you the good advice to proceed step by step always, be consequent and concentrated, and have a solid and profound understanding of how linking and folders work, and an at least basic understanding of sql. otherwise, please write me an email and i will install mt for you for a price lower the one mt asks ;). what should take me a couple more ages are the diffenrent templates i will have to develop (be sure that i won’t do with the standard ones!) and restructure my whole site to make the best out of mt. alice already declared me insane, for i already started with a new design, which also will account for the many new features i will deploy. wait and see – more great things to come! — acutally, besides my laudabile programming attempts, i have been quite a lazy bum since i am back to maastricht. however, yesterday i went to the library to have a first look at final theses. i was astonished how the different theses differed: the by far smallest thesis i browsed had only 37 pages, the most voluminous one 280. so i suppose i should plan to place my creative output somewhere between the lower quartile and the mean… if i only had a topic! i really need to find something soon, otherwise i will waste time madding about the ultra-shitty layout and design the majority of the people give to their thesis. this is certainly not true for esther‚s thesis which i found by accident, since it was misplaced. her mother is a designer and made it a really visual delicacy as well: content and looks in perfect harmony. — today, dani will come and visit me for the first time. the notice of her arrival triggered mr proper in me, and i did something i had sworn not to do anymore until i could attest my housemates some effort in houskeeping as well. so i once more cleaned. and how i cleaned! after the bathroom, increasing frustration and disgust drove me to clean the whole house from top to bottom. it took me almost two hours, but i found it to be a great workout, for i was sweating as hell. i won’t bore you with that any longer, but just for the record i have to state that everything (well, almost!) is clean now! — i will probably take dani to the center tonight. it’s a little sad that she will be arriving relatively late so she won’t be able to see all this nice city has to offer. tomorrow, we will drive back home together, since thomas, kai and me will be celebrating 1st of mai in the location where we did this for the first time exactly ten years ago. man, where did time go? but in fact, i do remember remarkably vivid lots of details from this celebration. no wonder why, since everybody reminds me of my puking after too much mixing cheap sparkling wine and beer in my stomach. at least it is true for all kinds of fuddles: one learns over time! — i wish all germans a nice 1st of may (actually, it is „tag der arbeit – day of work“; so it’s a holiday for everybody) and drop me a line if you like!