Monkinetic Weblog

Google: all things to all people: > pvera: Google is my ninja

Well, I've almost got my import script working well enough to push the button on getting 1729 posts from my blog archives imported into WordPress. It's been hairy, parsing 2400 or so xml files, creating posts and comments from them, and creating the connections between them all. Seeing as it's past midnight and I'm pretty tired, I'm not going to run the script on the live site until I'm certain it's right, but I'm hoping that will be sometime later today. This will mean I've got all my content from June 2000 until the present. I have one more database of posts from late 1999 through June 2000 still to do.

Aaron Swartz: The Weblog: Web Development Restarts >Considering HTML's stagnation and pain, this may be hard to believe fully, but I'm serious. They talk about things like Digital Signatures, tabbed/wizard interfaces, rich text editing, spreadsheets, and drag and drop, not to mention simpler stuff like date inputs, sliders, and repeatable rows.

July and August are "monsoon" season in the desert of Arizona. I've been here almost 3 years now and I'm still not sure why it's called "monsoon", but I guess theoretically we're supposed to get more rain or something. Usually we just get a lot of wind and dust, most often looking something like this.