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Moving from LiveJournal to WordPress

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I’m working on a new site for a local author, and one of the things she wanted was to move her blog from LiveJournal to WordPress. I did a bit of research, and found out that there are a few complications.

  1. LiveJournal’s export tool will only export a single month of entries at a time.
  2. The LiveJournal export file will have all the HTML encoded, meaning images and links won’t work.
  3. WordPress’s LiveJournal import tool won’t import comments.

However, thanks to a third-party LiveJournal export tool called ljArchive, I was able to get all the posts and comments exported in one file.

With that problem out of the way, I did a bit more looking and discovered that Vinit Bhansali has created a modified version of WordPress’ LiveJournal import script that decodes the HTML entities, and adds support for comments.

I was really excited to have solved my problem, and then I noticed that his notes say his script was tested in WordPress 1.5. Given that WordPress is currently at version 2.1, I wondered if his changes had maybe been incorporated into the latest version.

Happily, they have been! I’m pleased to say that I was able to use the stock WordPress LiveJournal import tool to import all the posts and their comments, and all the images and links still work.

So if you’re making the switch, you should still use ljArchive to get all your posts out at once, but you don’t need any modified WordPress scripts to import them, because the standard one works fine.

Miles Visits and Scott Angers His Coworkers

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Time: 3:48am (press return). Miles has just left my house. Around 9pm tonight (yesterday) Annie checked out a car, and we picked up Miles and Zach (and KT) at KT’s house. On the way to Gustav’s, Miles started telling a story about his housemates which he was only able to finish by the time we left Gustav’s two hours later. We dropped KT off, and Miles suggested renting The Original Kings of Comedy, which we all watched at my house, and were greatly amused by. We had a great time, and were sad to see Miles go. Zach asked if he could crash here for the night, which we agreed to, and I said he could sleep in the middle bedroom (where our computers are set up) after I checked my email.

Now Zach is sleeping in the basement, and I’m still sitting at my computer because I have work to do. I knew this might happen, since Steve and I had a demo assigned to us at a meeting today, which is due tomorrow (today) at 9am (5 hours from now). But since Miles was only in town for one day, I decided to hang out with him and run the risk of coming home to a pile of work needing to be done.

Now I’m facing the same decision I faced so many times in college: With five hours until the project is due, is it better to work now and get three hours of sleep at the end, or sleep now and get up in three hours to do the work? Or is it better to post to KillingMachines and avoid the decision altogether?

Trying to Move On

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I’m walking a tightrope lately. On the one hand, I can’t turn the news off. On the other hand, I feel the need to do something else, even if just for a few hours. I’ve been hanging out with friends, trying not to talk about current events. I’ve also been on my computer a lot. It’s exhausting to keep watching, but I feel guilty for stopping. It’s like, “what right do I have to do fun things?” But life has to move on. I’ve done everything I can do.