I upgraded the Moveable Type Software to version 2.6+ and discovered “Text Formatting” plugins support. What does this mean? Well, bold and emphasized text, for example, can be entered thusly:

*bold* and _emphasized_

rather than like this:

<strong>bold</strong> and <em>emphasized</em>

A tip o' the toque to Brad Choate for this nifty module. This will speed up my blog composing as I won't have to remember opening and closing tags for run of the mill text.