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May 08, 2003
New and improved
As you probably notice, I have made some major changes.
One change I've been wanting to make for some time is switching from Radio Userland to MovableType. I finished that migration yesterday.
I was happy to find that I was able to migrate all of my Radio blogs into MovableType. I found a few scripts that were supposed to convert Radio to MovableType, but they didn't work out of the box, and they were written in Python. I'm not a Python programmer (which is a personality characteristic I'm proud of), so I rewrote the script in Perl. With a bit of fudging, the import worked perfectly. You can see the results in the left column under "ARCHIVES" and "RECENT ENTRIES".
I have a bit of work left to do on the migration. The old blog is still (mostly) alive, and I will probably leave it there until I get everything mapped over properly. I'm especially interested in making sure that search engine links don't break, until the search engines re-index my site.
I'll write later about some things I'm excited about with MT.
Posted by pete at May 8, 2003 11:33 AM
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Welcome back, it's been a little odd not having regular posts. One recommendation:
Write your entries (or edit your index template) so the entire entry shows up on the front page (eliminating the need for a click to read the rest)
I've got your full-text feed on my aggregator.
Posted by: Michael Kruckenberg at May 8, 2003 12:31 PM
No, I didn't notice as I read with a news aggregator. How come I need to go to your web page to leave comments?
Posted by: allen cole at May 8, 2003 04:47 PM