I quite literally just finished implementing some new blog software. I tinkered around with templates, CSS settings, and loads of other minor aspects of the software I chose to use. At the same time I made loads of changes to my web site, moved content to a new hosting service, edited DNS records with my registrar, and moved email servers. Whew!

So, now that I have just uploaded the content, it's time to work on getting Technorati, Feedburner and other services wired up. I also need to move content from my old "blog" to this new blog. And the old one was not so much a blog as a pile of code I cobbled together to list announcements and stuff, so there's a few dozen posts I need to move.

I thought about writing code and all that to push content into the new software... But honestly brute force will probably take less time. (Trust me, there's not that much content that would make an automated solution worthwhile.) The only downside I've seen is that while I can set the date for a post I can't set the time. So moving the old stuff over won't match the old date-time stamps. I'm on the fence on that. Maybe it will annoy me enough that I'll go ahead and write code to force everything to match up.

Anyway, after that, it'll be time to retire the old code and database and write some new code into my main site to pull in the latest five or so posts from the new blog. Not bad for an evangelism manager.