Hello Jim. Thank you for the link, I didn’t know about the alternate password, nor even how to find it. I was able to get the Live Writer working w/ MT after I found the info.

After using it for a little bit, I don’t find MT to be too bad, although I admit that knowing how to do one thing in WP leads me to try to find the same in the other. I’m not sure, but I think that if I had not started with WP, I would have trouble using MT. My comment earlier about not expecting Mac OS X to be like Windows still holds true, I cannot expect MT to be just another WP clone, but WP is the only thing I’ve used, and so anything I do in MT will be based on anything I know of WP. However, if I ever have a personal blog, I will have to evaluate MT vs WP. The latest version does offer much. I’m going to keep testing it out over the next couple of weeks. My web host — DreamHost — offers 1-click installs for WordPress, as well as 1-click updates, which is fairly huge for me. They don’t offer this for WPMU, but for the single user WP, it means I don’t have to worry about keeping the software up to date, anytime there is a release, I can update it within about 10 hours (and can do this from any web browser, even from work).

With that said, both products have room for improvement. For one, I would like the multi-user MT to be able to go into dumb mode, and not allow me to set a base for my install that is different from my URL. On this site, because WPMU takes away certain choices, those who use do not have to know much about what’s behind the scenes. For the average user, I believe they like when the software gets out of the way and handles certain things for you.

As for OpenID, I’m still a bit mixed on what I feel about it. In general, I don’t trust people I don’t know well, especially on the internet. While I can be reasonably assured that LiveJournal is trustworthy, a random OpenID server may or may not be. Aside from a couple of those who are trusted, I’m not sure what I gain for a site like this, where 90% of those commenting know each other. This is (for the most part) a blog for people who play the MMORPG FFXI (Final Fantasy XI). But, as the admin for it, I do post about running the software too. On a larger blog with tons of readers and posters, I can see an advantage to OpenID. The FFXI blog community is small, most of whom can be found at this link http://staronion.com/maiev/nfblog/?page_id=340 . Other than those who use livejournal, blogger, and wordpress.com, the ones who host their own blogs are mostly WordPress, or WPMU.

I don’t regret making the choice to go with WPMU a year ago. It was the right choice then. Had I gone with MT, I’m sure I would be just as happy today about the decision. At the time, WPMU was a good choice. As someone who had never really tried to blog before, it was not a bad learning curve.

But once again, I want to thank you for taking the time to comment on such a small blog. I think that says a lot right there.

Also, I believe that MT does work with Windows Live Writer, but it’s probably not as intuitive as it could be. Hopefully this will help:
http://www.alexlomas.com/blog/2006/08/live_writer.html

If you have other quetsions, I’d be happy to help.