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WordPress….

I gave in.. after mucking around with LifeType for a few years I decided to migrate my blogs to wordpress.  Dan Rooke’s plog import plugin helped me to port all the posts. While I managed to get both the net-dns blog as well as this one running from the FreeBSD port install using the  Virtual Multiblog plugin.

After the usual tweaking of themes I’m done and I hope I can stay away from the actual install and configuration for a while.

You might ask: why not drupal.

Answer: I couldn’t find an easy migration tool for the LifeType blog.

pLog and Ecto

Even though I follow the instructions on the PLog 1.0/XMLRPC page, I have problems getting pLog and ecto to work with pictures.

After including a thumbnail with the ‘iphoto’ interface button and publishing the message Ecto responds with a "Could not parse response" message.

What I notice is that:

  • The original image is uploaded to the resource album but the thumbnail is not.
  • The console log shows an empty response.

I had some hope that Paul’s time sink would contain some hints but was not able to find anything there.

Doing the pictures manually is such a pain.

Plog Templates are cool

I have not yet started to get my finger behind Plog’s plugins—This evenings project was was not Blog but Mail. I finally gotaround to have my home-gateway talk SASL/TLS to my main server thatacts as a relayhost so that all my mail leaves from one server. — butthe templates stucture is cool enough in itself. Its one of thoseappealing little features of the plog architecture.

The AmIAScreenSaverOrNot screensaver is a funny screensaver is very nice hack. It just grabs pics from http://www.hotornot.comand displays them, one by one. While trying to figure out how that hackworked I noticed that HotorNot has an RSS feed nowadays. That makeshacking up a template that shows the latest 10 girls on HotorNot a trivial excercise.

The result can be found at http://www.trend-watcher.org/static/ladies.

The core of the template only counts a few lines:

{include file="trend-watcher/header.template"} 
{if $rss->parse("http://services.hotornot.com/rss/girls/")}
{assign var=channel value=$rss->getChannel()}
<a href="{$channel->getLink()}">{$channel->getTitle()}
 
{$channel->getDescription()} 
  {foreach name=articles from=$rss->getItems() item=rssItem} 
    {if ($smarty.foreach.articles.iteration < 10)}      
getLink()}">{$rssItem->getTitle()}    
         {$rssItem->getDescription()} 
 {/if} 
  {/foreach} 
 {/if} 
 
{include file="trend-watcher/panel.template"} 
{include file="trend-watcher/footer.template"}