Who knew? I just took a blog that had been languishing under MovableType 4.01 and migrated it over to the shiny new WordPress 2.6.3
The MovableType export format is still importable into WordPress with little trouble. I wrote a MovableType template to export all blog post titles and URLs so I could craft a .htaccess file to preserve old URLs, and that took a few minutes to work through reformatting from a plain dump to usable .htaccess structure with Redirect 301 directives. But not difficult, with the help of TextMate and regular expressions 
The hardest part – by far – of the process was figuring out file locations, permissions, etc… on the target server. The migration was trivial once I worked that out.
Here’s the MT Template I used to generate the text that got processed into the .htaccess file for wordpress. There’s probably a better way, but this worked for me.
Google Earth. On my iPod Touch. Seriously. This app is fracking amazing. Pinch to zoom or rotate. Tilt the iPod to tilt the view. The controls are so smooth and intuitive that I was actually disappointed when the view didn’t rotate as I spun my chair around. Maybe on a fancy schmancy iPhone 3G? Still [...]
D’Arcy’s bike commuter tip #32: Always, no matter how early it is on a Monday, and no matter how tired you are, always check your tire pressure before starting a ride.
D’Arcy’s bike commuter tip #33: It is actually possible to ride for 10km on a nearly flat front tire, after discovering that it was nearly [...]
which of these things is not like the other? a few other places I’d rather be right now…
I just had to uninstall the TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter from UCalgaryBlogs.ca – it’s a simple plugin that uses a dictionary lookup to try to detect what it thinks are REALLY obvious spam comment attempts. But it was a bit overzealous. Instead of just modifying the dictionary to remove some valid words (which words are [...]
I can’t wait for November 5. The silly mudslinging meanness will go away for awhile. It’s not like the ads actually sway votes anyway. Take the high road, people.
now that I’m not obsessively hitting refresh on twitter.com I seem to have so much more free time online. It sounds silly, but my “check in” process used to hang on twitter, and now it only takes a couple of minutes to check in on everyone and everything I care about…
I was a hardcore Star Trek geek as a kid. Who wasn’t, really? Captain Kirk going all maverick on the galaxy, finding cool new planets, and nailing hot alien babes. Space is cool! I think I watched every episode at least a couple dozen times – yay syndicated reruns – but for some reason it’s [...]
