OK, I have been mucking about with the templates of the old Daily Rant in hopes of getting some sort of output that can then be imported into Movable Type. If you go over and take a look at December’s archive page you will see what it looks like. There is still a lot of cleaning up to do. Of course all the links to posts inside the Rant are worthless, but the outside links survive. The Pop-ups are toast too. I managed a way to salvage the comments, but someone pointed out there were a few bon mots in there. It is still going to take some time in a word processor to clean up the file before it is ready to be imported.
That amount of time will tell if this project is worth it. If it takes 20 minutes to do one file I then have to multiply it by 12 months then times 3 for years and finally again by 2 for the two blogs.