I’ve now completed the arduous task of migrating all of my old blogs into a single, new, and sexy WordPress blog . I had posts all the way back to December 2003, using both “Old” Blogger, and LiveJournal. This involved backing up my LiveJournal, and exporting to XML, and then using the WordPress importer. Then for Blogger, I had to temporarily switch my hosting to blogspot instead of my ftp, and then use WordPress’s importer for Blogger. With all of those posts and comments finally in one place, I was then able to work on styling things up, and putting together a new look for the site. So other than going back and giving some of my old posts proper titles, and doing a little tagging, I should be all set. If anyone sees anything awry, let me know. For anyone else that may have to accomplish the same task, I couldn’t have done it without:

• Moving Blogger To WordPress
  
• LJArchive

Now time to finish packing for my vacation to San Francisco – Krissy’s already there, ready to make her presentation tomorrow at the SIOP Conference. After her sessions are over, our trip will take us around the city, to a night excursion to Alcatraz, a tour to Muir Woods, and then we’ll be renting a convertible to drive down the Pacific Coast Highway down to Los Angeles. It should be a fantastic time.

I just discovered the relatively new Labels feature of Blogger and I’ve been going through the archived posts and tagging them all with relevant labels. It very neatly auto-creates all the label pages and collects all the posts that reference that particular label. Very cool stuff. I’ll be setting up a labels list in the sidebar for easy searching through topics shortly.

UPDATE: Apparently since I have an old Blogger template I am unable to add the labels list to my sidebar. Rats!