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.

Even though the weather looked cloudy and gray, we wanted to get out and do something with our one full day in Vancouver. We decided to drive over to Stanley Park (a huge “Central Park”-style park adjacent to downtown Vancouver. Nestled inside the park is the Vancouver Aquarium. There were fish, eels, snakes, spiders, dolphins, beluga whales, otters, and lots of people. It wasn’t a huge facility and it only took a few hours to get through.

We headed back to the hotel and then walked out to Chinatown to find some lunch. After browsing around looking for a suitable place that wasn’t too “sketchy”, we ended up at a trendy small place called Wild Rice. We were the only customers in the whole restraunt – but the food was well presented and tasty. It was all served “family-style” but Krissy and I both had our own dishes primarily. She had some salmon and oriental greens with noodles, I had some sweet & sour ribs, brown rice, and szechuan chicken.

Again we had eaten late so dinner wasn’t an option. After another dip in the spa, we drove over to Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club. We took a short break around the corner at a Tim Horton’s to try their famous doughnuts. They were definitely better than Dunkin Donuts, but not as good as a hot Krispy Kreme. Coffee was good too!

The comics were pretty good – but as it usually ends up for some reason, the first guy and the host were the funniest of the whole show. The middle guy and headliner were’nt that good. But it wasn’t too expensive (before we bought a drink anyhow) so it was a fine way to end the night.

Our last day will bring us over to the Capilano Suspension Bridge, and then back to Seattle to fly home.