I have over a year's worth of entries sitting in my LiveJournal account that I had been meaning to bring over onto kemitix.net. But I didn't want to loose all the comments that had been made and become what I felt was such an integral part of that journal. The current LJ migration tool with {WordPress} works with files generated by the LJ site's export tool. That doesn't include the comments in that export. So I held of on the transfer.

I've found the solution to the first part of that problem. A script that can pull all the posts and comments out of my LJ account and output it as XML. This evening I have finished a {Perl} program to read that XML and put the posts, together with all the comments, neatly threaded, into WordPress.

So how did I do it? Read more »

For those of you who haven't added the feed for my new journal, and especially if they have an Irish connection about them anywhere:

I'm off to Belfast on Thursday and Dublin the day after. Cause I'm off to see Metallica.

There are two feeds:
[LJ:kemitix_net] - everything I put up on my website goes in here - potentially high volume Read more »

I've setup my own Blog and have started using that for what would have been my LJ posts. I'll still be reading all my friends journals, so please don't un-friend me, I'll still be here, and logged in to LJ, so I can see friends only posts.

My own posts will at Kemitix from now on. (at least until I do something lame-brained and screw-up the whole installation). Read more »

I've read about soft drink vending machines that adjust their price according to the temperature.

-- Arellanes.com

{length:46}-{[LJ:nightway]}-{[LJ:mr_false]}-{[LJ:cherita]}-{[LJ:goldy_kin]}-{[LJ:besyonya]}-{[LJ:alexej]}-{ Read more »

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man
hits his thumb with a hammer.

-- Marshall Lumsden

They are playing The Proclaimers on Streaming Soundtracks. I just love the word Haver. Wonderful. Read more »

Experimenting in generating my own RSS feeds for others sites. Yes, these are page scrapers. They aren't particularly fast, so don't post them to anywhere that's going to get me lot of traffic. I still need to add in the ability to cache the page results.

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The supposedly Gluten-Free 'Macadamia and Cranberry' Eat Natural bar I had this morning. Oww. Or maybe it was the 'Apricot and Raisin' bar this afternoon. I had one of those on Monday morning too. It says Gluten-Free on the wrappers. Maybe it isn't Gluten I'm reacting to. Which is a pity, because I quite like the A&R flavour. Which wouldn't be good. I'd have to be on the look out for more than just Gluten.

Never mind. I'm home. I have some study material for my Secret Project. (muahahaha)

Well I was off work sick on Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm feeling a bit better now, although I still have Bronchitis and a little bit of a head cold. Sudafed is keeping the head cold under control.

Saw this at the beginning of the week: ewwww!. Read more »

Got to the GEAS Writers' Group with plenty of time to spare on Sunday. I hadn't been able to finish the informal writing assignment set two weeks ago, but I did get about 1900 words written. That only really introduced two main characters and some setting. It did use four of the six cards that I had been drawn to use as the basis of the story. I did miss the point of the exercise, which was to use the cars as a framework to fix the story on, rather than, as I used it, as a simple inspiration to writing something. Read more »