seven must really be lucky

Well, I upgraded to the hot off the press MT4b7 this evening. Turns out the issue I was experiencing was a bug (hey it's a beta, what do you expect), but it's all good in beta 7 so far. My permalinks appear to be mostly intact.

And yes I've chosen to use one of the built-in templates from MT4, to be honest many of them (as minimialist as they are) just looked a lot bland. So I went for the slightly more twee look of my old hometown cityscape. [on a side note, it's nice to see that they got aurora place in there, we wouldn't want the skyline to look so 10 years ago] Once the whole platform stabilises, it will be back to a nicer stylesheet.

Things I'm not sure about in MT4 include the switch to hyphens rather than underscores in permalinks, the reasons being search engines somehow like it more. The thing is underscore is not only so oldschool computing it also seems to substitute for the perpetually_computer_choking space character much better than the joining-words-together hyphen does.