No sooner had I made the move to my new home than the server for mentalspace and drivelwarehouse domains crashed, taking out a fair part of Ozplogistan. You can read the gory details here.
However, everything seems to be fixed now, and I plan to start working on improvements to this site. Suggestions gratefully accepted.
Update I’ve implemented a number of suggestions, including some changes in colour scheme and the addition of a photo. It’s newer (that is, older) than the one on the website, which I’ll update soon. More suggestions and criticism still very much welcome.
John Quiggin 
John, I am of course happy to assist you with any template modifications, etc.
And I suggest you post your photo over there on the right…
Kill the calender; makes it look to generically “MT.”
Also, quick question for Rob, are you running all these sites through one MT interface, or setting up seperate installations for every hosted site?
Because I notice John is running MT2.63 and yet Carita is running MT2.51 and this leads me to believe it’s seperate installations, when you could just run everything through one interface.
Separate installations. That way John’s posts are not stored in the same database as mine, which makes things easier if he wants to move to his own server in future.
I wouldn’t mind so much if multiple blogs within one interface maintained their own chronology (ie, my posts were numbered 1,2,3,4 and John’s posts were numbered 1,2,3,4; instead of mine 1,3,4,7 and John’s 2,5,6,8).
If any one chooses to move out of the warehouse I can easily export their posting and comment details, along with their templates out to a seperate .sql file so they can just start again where they left off.
Personally I can’t see the point of having multiple copies of the same files running when it can be done with one interface. Perhaps if there was an mt-lite, then maybe, but considering how many resources MT takes up, hacing multiple installations would just kill.
I’ll admit that the cronology thing pisses me off, but that’s easily removed by using any of the MT plugins (or i think it maybe built into MT now) that stores archives as archives/category/posttitle.html, or if you’re using date-based archiving (and if you are, you must have bulk-bandwidth to spare_ it’s archives/year/month.html
I just haven’t got around to implementing that because it would mean rebuilding 2500 odd posts and kill the permalinks yet again.
Not sure about other hardware setups, but on my Dell laptop screen the colour of the hyperlinks – a sort of taupish greyish colour – is really tough to read against the light grey background. A different colour would be great.
Bailz, MT only uses resources when it’s running, so multiple installations don’t use up anything other than more disk space.
The new hyperlinks colour is much better – cheers.