In the beginning there was Movable Type (MT) and it was good.

OK, we could go back to blogger, or even HTML, but I started blogging with MT, so that's where this story begins...

Each release of MT was better than before, in it's early 2.x's MT got plug-ins as well, but then came the dark when everything seemed to center around comment spam and how to fight it. It felt to me like the only plug-ins being written were new ways to combat comment spam.

MT 3.2 fixed that with a whole new spam fighting system, which at first let a lot through before I got it all tweaked and I think this must be the case with our developer community as well because it seems cool plug-ins are coming back into fashion.

A few weeks ago I added the latest from my Flickr photostream with the FlickrPhotos plug-in and today I just noticed NaughtyWordChars which fixes the characters that get mucked up when you copy and paste from Microsoft Word to MT (not that I use Word, but I think both Edu and Laurel do).

I've been hoping for something like Better Word Limit for a few years, but I can't remember why it was I wanted it now. I think it was something I'd worked around and I've also been playing with MediaManager which I have yet to actually put to good use.

All glory to Movable Type! Which oddly enough is the one product of ours I haven't really worked on, but which I use the most.