Why do you say "more probably to Movable Type 4"? Because you expect the migration to be easier from one MT to another, or are there other reasons to prefer MT?
Do you have approximate numbers for the site's traffic? Or do you bother quantifying such things?
Is the site running on a single server that handles both database and web serving duties?
Are there any other pages being hosted by this server or this codebase? For example, what's running the rest of nielsenhayden.com?
I don't have recent experience with MT or WP (my day job is Drupal) but helping out with this would be a fun way to learn.
If I were planning to port this site, I'd probably start by making up a list of the design and functional elements that you'd want to capture in the new site. Let me start off by listing: Posts in reverse chronological order. Comments that can be added by anonymous users (that is: users that don't have passwords). At least three page layouts that I've found so far: The home page, the individual thread pages, and the entertainingly named "Making Lighter". Subscribing via RSS to particular comment threads. An existing scheme to block comment spam (which needs to be explored in detail, since deploying something that doesn't work as well as the current system could be... bad). It's important to preserve all existing content at its existing URLs. Et cetera...
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