Posted on May 17, 2007 by Jorge
It’s About Time
Last night, I transferred the last MSN Spaces entry into this WordPress blog.
I can’t believe it’s taken a year. That’s insane.
I suppose that most of the problem was due to the fact that WordPress doesn’t have an Import function for MSN Spaces. I know it can do several other Blog formats, including the comments. But not good ol’ MSN Spaces.
My original rationale for using MSN Spaces was because I didn’t have to have an extra password. It used the same information as my Windows Live Messenger ID. Yeah. It was supposed to be easier.
Unfortunately…
- …for quite a long time, many of my readers had problems commenting on my site because they didn’t have a Windows Live account.
- …MSN Spaces’ WSYWIG interface was idiotic. You could type the exact same thing in twice and come away with two completely different bits of code.
- …MSN Spaces is the MySpace of the blogging world. Most of the people that visited my site didn’t have anything meaningful to say, instead choosing to leave weird ASCII art and pimp out their own blogs, which usually involved several inane lists and photos of themselves in various states of undress.
So I decided to move.
I am also a stubborn jackass.
I figured I needed every entry transferred over because I am a perfectionist. This involved…
- Extracting the HTML code for each entry.
- Stripping it down and recoding to actually format my blog the way I like it.
- Creating a new article using that HTML and timestamping it accurately.
- Copying all the comments over one at a time.
Posted on April 7, 2007 by Jorge
What a roller coaster of a day.
Many people have sent us wonderful notes, but this one, from my friend Nick, always gets me…
Hallow your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out ‘Olivia!’
– Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
I.v.261-263
The planet was feeling a bit nicer when I woke up this morning. Now I know why.
Nicholas Rice
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Posted on December 31, 2006 by Jorge
I won’t write a long entry.
Just a simple wish for you and for me.
From the bottom of my heart I hope that 2007 is one of the best years ever for everyone.
A picture of me in which I look
much less Rebo than last year.
Click to enlarge…
Have fun, everybody!
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Posted on December 25, 2006 by Jorge
It’s the 25th!
Christmas is here, but it’s a stretch for a lot of people to believe.
What with the fact that you don’t have to shovel any snow. That and you can probably get a tan from walking outside in the sunshine while wearing a t-shirt.
Heck, I was cleaning my eavestroughs last weekend. Craziness.
This year has been interesting, but I will talk more about that next week.
I just wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday celebration, no matter what you believe in.
At long last, a glimpse of the red wall.
Click to enlarge…
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Posted on November 15, 2006 by Jorge
In a time where the news topics of the day include Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii, City election results and other things of interest, I figure I would take a breather.
I mean, really.
It’s only for a few weeks.
Packing and moving are hard work and time is a luxury that I can’t really afford to waste right now.
So come back in a bit, and I will have new material*. Or, as new as I can be, anyway.
* – In the mean time, you could always check out some of the archives. I still haven’t moved everything over from Spaces, so I might also be doing that in the interim as a form of procrastination.
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