Ree’s Blogsome

777 posts so far in this account, mostly daily summaries of my del.icio.us bookmarks. When wordpress.com opened, I created miuty.wordpress.com and mirrored my bookmarks there as well.

Now the del.icio.us service has changed so that I can only send my daily bookmarks to one blog, and that’s got to be my wordpress.com account. There’s no contest - wordpress.com lets me easily backup my posts; Blogsome does not.

But I’m not deleting this account. If people have chanced to find and bookmark my auto-posted entries, they shouldn’t be penalised with having those entries disappear.

Blogsome: good luck, so long, and thanks for all the links.

Yup — again. I’m betting all my quotes and apostrophes get slashes added and not removed. Ten bucks. Betcha I’m right. And again.

Blogsome’s API has been breaking links for months now. It’s quite a pain. Wordpress.com’s works. Therefore, my daily links are moving (RSS feed).

Not sure what that leaves this account for. I’ll have to think on it.

The daily links are suspended until Blogsome’s XML-RPC capability returns, when and if it does. The links are always at http://del.icio.us/ree/ and there’s RSS for everything (the whole enchilada or by tag), should you wish to stay on top of my linking habits. (You stalkery type you.)

That’s 100 posts here. Wow. Mostly link lists, I’m afraid — I hesitate to commit much else to a place without a backup function — but still. It adds up so fast.

When did post preview start working in Opera? *blink* When Blogsome upgraded to WordPress 1.5, I suppose. Nifty!

Holy crap, that yellow line thing in the admin console is supposed to be post preview?! I guess it doesn’t work in Win/Opera. It sure works in Linux/Mozilla though.

I wonder if that script misfiring is what keeps crashing Opera on the post edit screen. Something about it drives Opera bonkers and consistently crashes the sucker. I’ll have to try turning off the preview next time I hit Blogsome using Opera.

OMG the pieces just clicked into place in my brain.

I’ve been playing with a WordPress install on some free PHP-enabled webspace, testing options that aren’t available to me on Blogsome — tweaking the XML templates, editing the index.php that exists instead of the index.html that doesn’t, and a few other things that make the WordPress admin console make sense. I also exported some DiaryLand entries of mine from 2000 using Liberate, which uses the MovableType export format.

WordPress will import MT entries so of course I had to try plugging my Diaryland entries in MT format into a WP blog!

It mostly worked, kinda, except for the part where it had no visible effect and the posts don’t show up in the public blog or even in the edit posts list. They exist in the SQL table but they have no publish status. Apparently WP expects posts to have a status of public, private, draft, or password-protected. Posts with no status don’t show up in the edit posts panel but do affect post count in the category panel.

The Dland-to-MT script is hosted, not downloaded, affording me no chance to tinker. I may be able to do a simple find-and-replace to add post status to my exported file. If that doesn’t work I’m stuck setting over 200 entries manually. And that’s just the year 2000 entries. Eeek.