Just install PostTwiOAuth which is from Japan.
See how it works and I will write the howto in English.

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It is another trick to optimize JS files. Especially when more than 2 js files have to be included in blog.
I combined all js files into one js file. Don’t ask me how to combine it. Because I use the stupid way to combine them, just copy and paste.
Say I have five js files. Total 39K. After gzip, it is about 19K. When web page request them, five http request send out.
I put all js into one file, then only one http request needed.
And also I use minify tool to make it smaller.
After that, it is 30.5K, and gzip 14.6K. About 25% smaller.
OK I almost forget to mention one thing. To keep your mt.js minified version. Change mt.js publish to manually.

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It took a long time to upgrade databases.
Let’s see what changes of database.
* Upgrading database from version 4.0068.
* Upgrading table for as_ua_cache records…
* Upgrading table for ActionStreams::Event::Meta records…
* Upgrading table for profileevent records…
* Upgrading table for TrackBack records…
* Upgrading table for TrackBacks records…
* Upgrading table for IP Ban records…
* Upgrading table for Object Score records…
* Upgrading table for Comment records…
* Upgrading table for Entry records…
* Upgrading table for Asset Placement records…
* Upgrading table for Field records…
* Upgrading table for Comment records…
* Database has been upgraded to version 4.0070.
* Plugin ‘Professional Pack’ upgraded successfully to version 1.3 (schema version 1.4).
* Plugin ‘Community Pack’ upgraded successfully to version 1.63 (schema version 1.62).
* Plugin ‘Action Streams’ installed successfully.
* Plugin ‘Motion’ installed successfully.
OK. finally, I have the updated MovableType installation.

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For me, I don’t know when I will stop blogging? How long can I keep using MovableType?
I start my Blog on MovableType 3.11 four years ago. Now it is 4.21 in 2008.

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Today we are releasing Movable Type 4.01b and Movable Type 4.12. These are free mandatory security updates for all Movable Type 4.x users.

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Action now, upgrade your MT installation. It is a Security update.
I have some MT 4.1 installation on Dreamhost. I update them just two minutes ago.
It is simply and easy to update.
1) SSH to server.
2) wget http://www.movabletype.com/download/personal/MTP-4.12-en.tar.gz
3) tar -xvzf MTP-4.12-en.tar.gz
4) cp -r -f . ~/sitedir/mtcgi/
5) login MovableTyep and done.

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1. A faster and more efficient user experience
2. More design options and our simplest and most powerful templates yet
3. The best, most effective anti-spam solution

In the first feature, the most important is described as below:

Completely Rewritten Search – Movable Type’s venerable built-in search system has been rewritten from the ground up to be modernized, much more flexible, and lightning-fast. Now it’s easy to create custom-filtered views of your content.

MT-search is heavy CPU load script on my host.
If the new search can solve it, I would like to keep use it instead of Google Search.
It announced that Common tasks in Movable Type 4.2 are up to 100 times faster.
Do you believe it?

I would like to have a road test of it on MovableType Beta Unofficial Blog.

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tar czvf backup.tar.gz ~/yinfor.com/

4) Go to control panel of Dreamhost, Goodies > Manage MySQL > phpMyAdmin
Export the whole database.
Now I have the full backups on different levels. I am safe even the following upgrade fails.
Upgrade
1) SSH to Dreamhost

cd ~/temp/<br />wget http://www.movabletype.com/download/personal/MTP-4.1-en.tar.gz

2) Decompress the package

tar xvzf MTP-4.1-en.tar.gz

3) Copy the decompressed files into the mt cgi folder. I use mtcgi as the system folder.

cd ~/temp/MTP-4.1-en/<br />cp -r -f . ~/yinfor.com/mtcgi/

4) Now launch Firefox.
Enter https://www.yinfor.com/mtcgi/

Click “Begin Upgrade” to continue.

5) Then enter the user name and password to sign in.

6) After successful sign in, the upgrade starts.

The upgrade is finished.
The new look of the backend is shown as below:

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• A smarter posting screen
• New asset editing system
• Author Avatars
• Shared global templates
• Performance enhancement

I will upgrade my MovableType unofficial blog first to see its new stuff.

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The important changes are listed below

• a clean upgrade path for user’s of the Custom Fields plugin wishing to move to Movable Type 4.1
• a fix that addresses a vulnerability posted about previously
• userpics are now embedded by default in Movable Type’s default templates
• a change to Movable Type search results template has sped up search results considerably

It looks not big change between Beta2 and RC1. The database is also updated when I upgrade my testing bed.
There is one more Release Candidate. The final MovableType 4.1 will release soon.

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