As you most certainly would have to notice by being here, the blog has moved. Actually almost all my stuff has moved to using Google Apps, which has pretty much everything I need, mail, website, blog (okay not officially part of Google Apps but still), and calendar. Basiclly Google owns me ;-) All my pictures are on Picasa, my mails on Gmail, my videos are on YouTube(, except one I uploaded for a friend to Google Videos as it was 15 minutes long...) and lastly my blog is obviously here. If Google goes south, I'm screwed. Though their stock prices don't seem to be headed any direction but up so..
So any techy person may wonder how I got all my posts/comments from ExpressionEngine onto Blogger. It was easy I tell you, okay, that's a slight lie ;-). I wrote a custom application that uses XML file definitions to read text file exports of posts. It uses Google/Blogger's Data API to post the stories to Blogger. Comments are done the same way, but due to restrictions in the API you can't post anonymously and so all imported comments are tagged to the blog owner (hence the "Posted By:" at the end of the comments.) Published dates are persevered for both comments and blog stories. HTML has to be stripped from comments which makes thinks a little interesting, but workable. The last thing it does it write an htaccess file of RewriteRules to forward all the traffic. Pretty complete solution if you ask me ;)
The application itself isn't very pretty, but it's usable, by me anyway. I might stick it up later so others can take a peak and try and use it. Anyway, couple more days in Utah, staying with the in-laws until the first of the new year.
Grade reports so far for Fall 2007 semester as follows:
Yugoslav Wars - A
Intersection of Race, Class, Gender,and Sexuality - B-
Intermediate Japanese I - C+
Waiting on a grade for America Sees Red and then I'll post an updated GPA graph, though I'm projecting that I finally broke the 3.0 barrier! w00t w00t!
