You may have noticed that I’ve been very quiet on my blog over the past couple of months. This has been for a couple of reasons: primarily, I’ve been really busy, but also because I’ve been sort-of locked out of it while my laptop was out of commission. I was a Blosxom user, which is a lovely piece of software and very simple, and I chose it because it’s very easy to integrate into another site – however, that has now bitten the dust.

At some point, for some unknown reason, all my historic blog entries ended up getting dated to September. Blosxom takes the dates from the file stamps, and there’s no other information I seem to have available – so, basically, my blog history is now entirely buggered.

Anyway. I’ve used this as an excuse to move to WordPress 2.7 – the release that just came out. I’ve always been a bit against WordPress, mainly because it needs an SQL database, but also because it seemed so complex and difficult to work into my existing site. However, I did it earlier today, and it probably took literally an hour – the hard part was making the mod_rewrite rules actually work for the permalinks.

I found DeWitt Clinton’s blog post on moving from Blosxom, and with a bit of light editing to the script he provided, I managed to import all my old data – thanks, DeWitt All my old posts are back – minus the correct dates and permalinks, of course – which is nice.

Basically, it all seems the same from the front – albeit it I can now take pings, comments, and all that new lovely stuff. Plus, I can access my blog from whereever now, and hopefully that will mean I can blog more easily / more often. Let me know if you find anything broken!