55 Minutes
Well the first one took me 55 minutes, but that included setting up a test weblog in MT and a couple of aborted imports because I had a few glitches in the file setup. They should go smoother from now on.
Grave Digging
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.
Yikes!
Walking back through the garage I noticed a wavy spot on the right rear fender. When did that show up? Looks like someone sat on the fender or heaven forbid, I used too much pressure when I was wiping off the wax the other day. It is a very shallow and gradual dent. Anybody know the web address of a do-it-yourself ding doctor tutorial? Or maybe I should try one of those cheesy dent pulling things you see advertised on TV, with the hot glue and the “high tech” dent pulling suction cup…
What’s Past Is Past?
As I said before there is no easy way to export the entries from Pivot so that MT can digest them. I may try and do it manually. I think that I may lose the comments though, not that there were hundreds of insightful bon mats to save…
I have about 1050 entries in each of the Rant and the Diaries. Couple that with the 500 or so entries in PLOG and we are up to 2500 entries. PLOG will be easy as it was (is) done in MT, so it is a simple matter of exporting and then importing them back in here. You’ll know I have succeeded when the archive list grows and the post count per category climbs.
Lick Fork Lake
When we came to the parking lot at the trailhead after our hike, our friend Carol looked over at the lake and remarked that she wished she had brought her camera. Well I did, so I walked down to the shore and snapped a couple. I liked this one best.
New Year’s Day Tradition
I know two years in a row, can hardly be called a tradition, but it is a start. Last year on New Year’s Day Donna and I went for a hike in the Sumter National Forrest on a trial that we used to mountain bike back in the day. The Horn Creek Trail is almost 6 miles long in Lick Fork State Park about 30 miles from Aiken. This year we invited another couple we know from the Miata Club to join us. Even though both John and I had washed our cars the day before, we didn’t flinch too bad at having to drive the last 1/2 mile to the trailhead on a dirt/gravel road. (I did use the California Duster when I got home.)
Happy New Blog
I’ve threatened it a couple of times before, well now I’ve gone and done it. I’ve merged my three separate blogs into one. No more PLOG, all my photos will get published here. No more Brian’s Daily Rant, I will be bitching here. No more Miata Diaries, car stuff goes here too. I will leave the old ones up for reference purposes. I would probably have imported them into here, but Pivot doesn’t have a way to export entries in a manner that MT would understand, so there they stay.
Pardon the dust as there are still a few things left on the punch list.