Blog Archeology

As you can see I have man­aged to import the pre­vi­ous 6 months worth of the Rant and the Diaries. Things have sped up con­sid­er­ably since yes­ter­day. I had all 36 months worth of the rant archives to go through and even using the replace func­tion in MS Word it was tak­ing way too long. Until I down­loaded a free­ware pro­gram called BK ReplaceEm. This puppy is more pow­er­ful than I can ever fig­ure out, but the beauty is that it will do sev­eral replace­ments over a group of files in one click. It took a while to set up, but once I got it going it cor­rected 95% of every­thing that needed to be fixed. The rest was done by hand in Word. When it came to the Diaries I set up the archive files as year, so I only have 3 big files to fix. I’m still import­ing them in 3 month groups just in case some­thing goes hinky it will be a man­age­able fix.

I may have to work a lit­tle more on the tem­plate here before I import more. The cat­e­gory archives come out with out the space between posts. In the date based ones, only the first post on the page is inside a box, the rest just run across the background.

And at point am I going to exceed the limit of posts in my data­base? I was get­ting all kinds of db crashes a year ago which is what prompted a change to Pivot. I was blam­ing that on the fact that I didn’t have access to a MySQL db at the Barn­door Fan Club web hoster, on mr-miata I do. Is 2500 going to be too much? I guess we’ll see.