How the script was whipped

Down at the bottom of the sidebar you'll find a link to BloggerAtom, a little python module I built and used to re-post all of my old posts from a bloxsom-like format to Blogger.

It's far from complete, but it did the job I needed to do. I will probably only hack on it some more if there is some outside interest in implementing the remaining function or fixing the bug in entry updating. But the module is released under the GPL, so just because I might not update it doesn't mean it won't get updated. (Well, it probably does, but you never know).

I have added this title manually

So, the blogger API really bites. I was all set up with PyBlogger and a python port of textile to whip up the aforementioned script that would slurp up my old posts and bloggerize them -- but No! Via the blogger API you can't add post titles, and you can't set post dates, making it worse than useless for importing over a year's worth of old blather. I guess it's screen-scraper time. UPDATE: Blogger also supports the Atom REST api, which doesn't bite at all -- in fact, it's pretty darn cool. Check out this nice example code. The script whipping is back on.

Window sitters

Window sitters, originally uploaded by jpellerin.

Who is more lazy? To prove that it is not I, here is a cat blog, via flickr.

Lethargy wins

I'm switching the blog to blogger. A number of reasons. Mainly, I'm too lazy to finish the minimalist blosxom-like blog software I started writing ages ago in php. And that's mainly because I have no interest anymore in recreational php programming. Like many before me, I have been seduced by the snake. Archives will return as soon as I whip up a script to post them to blogger.