I think I have my Dreamhost problems sorted - or at least the MovableType ones. I’ve switched all of the weblogs I maintain (no, really, there’s more going on than you realize) to MovableType 3.17, and after tweaking some templates and losing some features (temporarily), everything seems to be working again.
I’m also trying out other blogging software for my site - I got Typo up and running yesterday, but it wouldn’t import my comments from Movable Type for some reason. I’d like to switch to that since I’d finally get a chance to learn Ruby on Rails, but it’s awfully spartan. I had Textpattern installed on my last host, for testing purposes, and it was fine, but I didn’t feel like learning an entirely new templating language.
I was all set to try out WordPress, but after the link-farming incident, I don’t really trust their dev team. I do like their default template (obviously, and the work Michael is doing on K2 looks good as well. A bit blank, though.
Either way, I have a ton of posts in my head that I’d like to get up (even though my readership has dwindled to 2, and one of those is just me proofreading), and a whole redesign planned in my head. Maybe one of these days I’ll have the time for websites again.