I previously pleaded for a solution to help import my Wordpress posts to Ikiwiki.
I've now done it myself with the help of lxml and lamby's start on the problem.
http://static.natalian.org/2009-05-22/lxml-wordpress-import.txt
I'm not entirely sure if I've used lxml correctly. I use it in a SAXy serial access way when I guess I could have just pulled from the DOM tree. I've used the textile markup language on my previous Wordpress blog. Hence I've run all my posts through a textile filter and dumped the resulting HTML into .mdwn files.
So if you look through Natalian's archives, you'll see this blog stretches back now more than 6 years to 2003-04-27. That's a long time for a blog and the link rot shows.
For example I used to host pictures on pictures.natalian.org and referenced them in my blogs:
hendry@x61 archives$ grep -r pictures.natalian.org * | wc -l
94
That service does not exist anymore, since my my pictures are now all on Flickr and http://static.natalian.org/.
There is still some issues I need to resolve, such as ?tags. One has to manually create the tags files which is a major PITA.
So far I like where I am now with Ikiwiki.info. Though I am keen to possibly try a suckless approach with werc.
I confess! I hate Wordpress (~130k SLOC).
Though I love ikiwiki (~18k SLOC) powering my new blog over at dabase.com.
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To that special someone who figures out how to dump a Wordpress installation‘s comments, permalinks and all into a git backend with Ikiwiki. I’ll treat you to dinner in London.
Since my DAM rejection earlier this year I’ve been trying to cut down on Debian work. Unsurprisingly (and perhaps surprisingly to some) I fealt a bit emotionally drained and demotivated from defending myself and working with debian security.
Lately I have been working with new maintainer Andrea De Iacovo and I am very pleased with his work on Wordpress. Wordpress takes most of my time, like the beautiful day of Saturday yesterday. 
Unfortunately Andrea has had problems finding a sponsor, though a Wordpress security release expedited matters and got Nico Golde’s upload powers into action. So if you’re a DD and you use Wordpress, please help out Andrea.
Before I get unsubscribed from Debian Planet, I thought I should pimp my:
- Debian tips and tricks site – the current 400-odd tips are in the public domain so please rip them, update them or add some!
- The fantastic Web kiosk distribution Webconverger based on Debian Live, which also has a blog
Both based on ikiwiki. 
Anyway, I am still around of course. Met some great people in the Debian community and sadly some pretty pedantic unfriendly ones too. Final suggestion for DDs: Revoke your GPG keys more often and go to less key signing parties. :P
I’ve just released Webconverger (Web kiosk) USB&ISO versions built with stable Debian etch.
Webconverger has received some good feedback and press. I would like to thank Daniel Bauman for his rather excellent Debian Live work on which Webconverger is based.
I was hoping that Webconverger could support every locale, now it looks like I need to produce a separate ISO/IMG (or at least apt-get hooks) for every locale. One reason is that Iceweasel/Firefox extensions don’t scale very well. Try install every locale and dictionary extension. I dare you. Sidenote: I wonder why no one has packaged the dictionaries for Iceweasel.
In other news, I’ve been playing around with scim (keyboard switcher) and Korean locales. It seems to work though the title bar didn’t render hangul characters right in dwm. After some investigation I discovered there isn’t such a thing as a single “generic” Unicode font. This came as a shock to me.
Typical ttf only have 65536 glyphs, so no one font will do. Jeff Zhang also informed me about free Unicode fonts. Though I think especially in CJK environments proprietary fonts are unfortunately more common. Or I don’t know why microsoft-gulim isn’t in msttcorefonts.
Anyway the Korean version of Webconverger turned out OK, though I doubt any Koreans will be using it. It’s all sadly ActiveX out there.
My package wordpress 2.0.10 didn’t quite make it to etch in time as I was waiting for CVEs! 2.0.10 will be coming soon though…
It always amazes me how much work can get done in breaks like Easter. It’s great that etch is out. And whoa, the weather is great.
Of late I have been:
- Tracking the progress of #413926 and the fate of Wordpress in etch.
- Celebrating 3 years in the NM queue.
- Working on Debian Live. Check out my test environment. Daniel Baumann is currently rewriting make-live and I have begun a new project which I like to pretentiously call the Universal Web terminal.
I am keeping a close eye on the Wordpress 2.0.7 release.
I am being cautious because:
- no pings on their post. bit odd!
- The mentioned vulnerability does not apply to Debian’s PHP
- The diff between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7 has some considerable changes to the Akismet plugin which is not mentioned on the changelog/post
- I would like to improve the Debian copyright file, though I would like to hear back from upstream first
- There seems to be another minor security bug which I don’t think 2.0.7 addresses
I am also keeping an eye on Wordpress MU edition, to see how they handle these bugs, which has been version 1.0 for sometime.
Update: Ryan informs me there will be a 2.0.8 fixing the last reported security bug.
Thought I should mention I am wondering whether or not to package wordpress-mu.
It has stabilised and request has been made for it almost a month ago.
Trouble is I have been very busy travelling and I have not found time to find out how it complements the existing wordpress packaging, that also support “multi-users”, though with a different sort of hack.
Around the Christmas holidays expect something more concrete.
Greetings from Argentina!
Yes, I’m well aware of the 2.0.2 release of wordpress.
Packages are ready and I am waiting on my usual sponsor Fabio Tranchitella to upload them to unstable.
I wonder when I’ll get an AM. More than 2 years now in the process.
I wrote a couple of bash scripts to insert and update information into a mysql database.
They are both disappointingly slow interfacing with the mysql client. Though with the help of imagetrack, I’ve managed to collate information of about 20000 images of mine on different machines in an hour. I hope to do some analysis with this information. Like figure out which images are corrupted or have had their EXIF mashed or their time wrong.
pyblosxom2wordpress is a script to insert old blog entries from my previous blogging system pybloxsom. This has been on my TODO for a long time.
Finally I got around to doing it. Most of the old blog entries are quite embarrassing. Oh well, they’re are all here now. One could use the script to continue writing their blog in a blosxom fashion and periodically run my script to insert the new entries.
Whilst examining the Wordpress MySQL DDL, I found it could do with some better restraints. Perhaps they kept it loose for other DBMSes.