Site search, which has been broken for the past couple of days, is back working now. Pre-2003 archives are now broken, but I expect to get them reinstalled fairly soon. (Update: fixed now.)
Unfortunately, the inherent limitations of Movable Type and its upgrades are forcing a retreat from one of my long-held objectives, namely to provide this site’s archives with stable longterm URLs. The previous URL formats we used are not supported by MT 4, which means that after our upgrade-in-progress is finished, existing links to individual posts published before March 2008 will mostly break. With minor exceptions the material itself will not vanish from the site, but it will reside at new URLs and you will need to do more searching for it. Sorry.
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Somehow, a software upgrade killing “permalinks” is just delicious. I once had an author of a peer-reviewed journal article argue that providing a(n) URL in an archived journal was appropriate because people always provide a forwarding link when the computer system changes.
Not to interfere with your relationship here, but perhaps MT isn’t all she promised to be?
I recently did a complete restructuring and updating of my WordPress blog. One little plugin and all my links were restored. Never had a problem with the comments updating.