House Warming - Blogger Style

Well I just completed the last import of my Wordpress blog into Blogger. Now the only thing left to do is to sort out the post images which I'll have to do manually. Shame there isn't a way to recreate the directory structure on here, but the first 30 posts didn't take that long and I used MarsEdit to do most of it off line.

The import of the Wordpress I did with a great little Java tool called Blogsync-Java,  make sure you get the latest version June 2007 and remember you can only import fifty posts a day due to API restrictions.  It would be really nice if Google would offer Wordpress import as standard, maybe one day.

I enjoyed Wordpress and it is a great API but I didn't like paying $10 a month for hosting I wasn't really using and was at times painfully slow. Here's to free blogging long may it remain.

choctober: Choctober - What's that then mate?

choctober: Choctober - What's that then mate?: "This is a tasty month indeed, well it would be if it could escape my imagination. I have no plans for this Blog at all, yet anyway, it is on..."

Wordpress to Blogger - Do they blend?

Now that I am considering closing my main hosting service and moving over to the Freebies out there and in particular Blogger I thought I ought to do some testing.

I haven't been completely unhappy with Blue host and for around ten bucks a month it is a pretty fair service, you get almost everything you could wish for except perhaps certificates for sales, but these can be bough extra. What I have been annoyed at though is the lag on the server sometimes running into tens of seconds. I understand the need to throttle on shared servers to give each site a chance but to be honest it is a little extreme especially as I have such a small footprint. Size eights in case you are wondering that's a UK eight BTW which is an ISO-44 not sure of the DIN number but I am suspecting it is a nice Vierundvierzig.

The question though is can Blogger satisfy me, give me the attention I yearn and most importantly handle the load, to be fair a blind scribe could handle my load I am no a prolific writer.

Now to wrap up this meandering post I need to add a picture or two, let me see...

Blogger Wordpress Logo's I made this.

Change File Associations in Mac OS X

This annoyed me for a minute or two and then I found menu option under the info call out. This seems to permanently change the association as opposed to the right click temporary option. Funny how things are so different sometimes. Still this way makes more sense and is a lot more flexible than Windows way of doing it.