Rodent Regatta

I’ve tortured myself tonight as I’ve dealt with all of the frustrations of fixing the weblog problems that resulted from the ”import.” I’ve listened to the music of Josh Groban about 15 times while all the editing has been going on. I understand why people cry at Italian operas!

Writing a weblog from January of 2002 to the present has been a pleasure. Overall, it’s been enjoyable. On balance, I’ve liked it. Convinced? Well, the writing has been fun. Learning HTML has been tedious for me.

The act of importing the old entries from Radio has awakened me to two particular kinds of errors. The first, and most prevalent, were the errors that resulted from my ignorance of HTML. I see so many questions in my early entries that I now know the answers to.

The second set of errors result from Radio’s peculiarities in formatting when in WYSIWYG mode OR from the act of trying to export and import that HTML into Movable Type.

I’m doing some of the most rudimentary editing to return the weblog to usefulness after the import. I’ve fixed corrupted archive files.

What I haven’t done is make it look good. The archives are simply chock full of nested blockquotes that are awful. They’ll get fixed a little at a time.

I’m also slowly adding category assignments to the oldest entries. This will go slowly. Did I mention that this might take some time?