Moving the blog archive
by Stuart Robertson on December 1st, 2005 | designmeme
I’ve been moving the archived blog entries over to the new site. While it would make sense to use some type of XML export / import process to move the data the old MovableType database no longer runs well enough to make that possible. That’s not a criticism of MovableType—I’m still very pleased with it. It’s just that the Perl / Berkley DB environment I was running it under wasn’t ideal… and now it doesn’t work.
Looking back over the archive of the past 3 years I can really see that I’ve gotten more comfortable with writing—although I’m still much more concise than I’d like. I still have to force myself not to condence my blog entries too much. Some of my earliest posts weren’t even worth moving over. One entry was literally this short:
Blambot’s Nate Piekos offers a wide range of high-quality comic lettering fonts.
Wow. I type about as much now when I’m adding a bookmark to del.icio.us!
Actually, it’s del.icio.us that inspired me to expand the number of categories I’m using for the site. I’m now using them the same way I use tags on del.icio.us. I think that might help technorati work with the site as well. The benefit to you, is being able to find whatever you’re looking for a bit more easily—whether it’s a tutorial or what I’ve written about webcomics.
Updates to wordpress continue—the Captcha on the comments pages is now gone, and I’ve added a plugin to generate a Google Sitemap.
Stuart Robertson
