so, i have done most of the heavy lifting for porting the blog from blosxom over to wordpress. a few things remain. sadly, they are mostly the annoying and hard-to-accomplish things.
set up apache, mysql, phpset up wordpressimport blosxom entriesmodify comments in templates to point at haloscan instead of wordpresscustomize wordpress theme- go through and properly categorize imported posts (about 200 of ~980 done)
either fix the formatting that broke in the import, or decide i don’t care about ugly formatting on imported posts(showstopper) make sidebar less uglyfigure out how to rename existing haloscan threads to re-align them with their proper posts- do the legwork on renaming existing haloscan threads
(showstopper) figure out why WP’s rss feed isn’t escaping &s in blog subtitle fields correctly, and is therefore too wonky to use(showstopper) set up apache redirect for existing rss uri to new rss uri- (showstopper)
decide how to implement redirects for old blosxom permalinks (and then actually implement them)
you can view the new blog now here, though that link will only be valid as long as blosxom is still the “production” blog. there are a couple of entries up there that aren’t in blosxom, but they’re mostly along the lines of “play with the pretty shiny new toy” stuff. whee!
