07
Mar
2008
Have you ever seen that Shakespeare play "As You Like It"? Did you know that Kenneth Branagh made a version of it a few years ago set in Japan? Well, he did. It's pretty good, but there's that part in the middle where Oliver and Orlando are attacked by a lion... and he didn't bother to change it. I think I might have yelled at the screen, "A LION??? YOU MOVED THE WHOLE PLAY TO JAPAN, BUT YOU KEPT THE LION?."
Well, my friends, today's post is like a great big lion in the middle of Japan. Which is to say, incongruous. When we moved the whole site to solar hosting a few weeks back, we also changed blogging software, from LifeType to Movable Type. Obviously, I didn't want to lose all the entries we had written before, so I set out to move them over to our new Movable Type installation. Well, Google as I might, I was not able to find one bit of help out there in the wild interwebs.
Fortunately, I am apparently some sort of "programmer"! So I wrote my own script that takes a LifeType database and converts all of the information into a format that Movable Type can digest. I am posting it here for all the world to see, so that the next person who wants to make the same move won't have to reinvent the wheel.
Right-click and save this file. There are instructions in it; you'll need to be a little familiar with PHP and your LifeType database to make this work, but at least you won't have to start from scratch.
Sorry for the interruption; I now return you to your regularly-scheduled duck-watching.
Well, my friends, today's post is like a great big lion in the middle of Japan. Which is to say, incongruous. When we moved the whole site to solar hosting a few weeks back, we also changed blogging software, from LifeType to Movable Type. Obviously, I didn't want to lose all the entries we had written before, so I set out to move them over to our new Movable Type installation. Well, Google as I might, I was not able to find one bit of help out there in the wild interwebs.
Fortunately, I am apparently some sort of "programmer"! So I wrote my own script that takes a LifeType database and converts all of the information into a format that Movable Type can digest. I am posting it here for all the world to see, so that the next person who wants to make the same move won't have to reinvent the wheel.
Right-click and save this file. There are instructions in it; you'll need to be a little familiar with PHP and your LifeType database to make this work, but at least you won't have to start from scratch.
Sorry for the interruption; I now return you to your regularly-scheduled duck-watching.
