Old posts imported

It turned out that getting my old Yomiko blog posts imported into my new Wordpress setup was not too difficult after all. Wordpress allows you to import posts from a variety of other blogging platforms whose export formats it understands. Obviously Yomiko, with an expected global userbase of 1 (and now 0), isn't one of them, but handily enough, Wordpress speaks a format called "Wordpress Extended RSS", which is designed to let you import posts from earlier versions of Wordpress. By making an export of my one new blog entry in that format and looking at the file, it wasn't too hard to write a script which would convert my old entries into the same format for easy import. It took a few tries to get this right (frustratingly, there is no preview facility for imported entries, so if you import 70 of them and something goes wrong you've no choice but to delete all 70 of them and start again), but for now it seems like most of the important details - dates and times, tags and comments - have come through unscathed. Some entries seem to have been wrapped to 80 characters wide using linefeeds for reasons I don't understand, but that's not a huge problem and one I can fix by hand without too much trouble.