Welcome to my new blog, same as the old blog.

I started this blog the easy way: using Blogger.com. But Blogger is weak in several key areas:

a) most important: categories!
Categories applied to articles result in named archives. This is critical for finding articles later, and for accumulating Google cred.

b) Pages: static pages that don’t appear on the blog, but are navigable from the blog. This is great for non-changing material. This turns the blog into a real website, in a sense.

c) User access control: I won’t actually use this for my blog, in all likelyhood. But any group or business blog needs this feature.

d) Plug-ins: Extends the capabilities of the blog.

and more…

So I followed the directions for moving a Blogger blog to WordPress. I must’ve done something wrong, so I ended up republishing all the archives (about a year’s worth) using Ecto. I had to process each one individually, but it’s done now.

Only problem: all the articles are dated the day I moved them. I can use WordPress’s admin area to restore the original dates, though.

Also, I lost the comments.

All of which is probably solved by careful preparation but, why bother?

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