Tag: blogging

I have been doing a little bit of tidying up.
In 2004, I was kindly invited to be the British Guest of Honour at Conterpoint, the American NorthEast Filk Convention. I’d originally planned to fly out the week before the convention, and maybe stay for a few days after. However, I very quickly received many invitations to visit and stay with various people on the East Coast, and eventually my planned trip was going to last a whole month.
Wanting to keep a record, and also to keep in touch with the folk at home, I wrote a small and simple journal application, that I could easily maintain during my travels. It worked really well, most of the journal text was written and uploaded direct from my Palm, while photos were taken and uploaded from a mobile phone. When I got back, I added a further archive of photos taken on my camera.

I played about with the LiveJournal cross-poster last night, but it got late, and I’ve only just tested it out properly. To my surprise it all seems to work.

With an addition of some CSS to my LJ template, my images are now appearing as they do on WordPress, with correct alignment, and margins etc. This was the main reason for my decision to make new LJ posts temporarily private – to give me time to check and correct the formatting.

I haven’t posted anything to the blog for a couple of weeks. This is because I’ve been taking my website apart, in order to rebuild it.

I will post more about it later, but the short version is this. I have moved my main blog (as hosted on my own domain) from Blogger to Wordpress. With a few plugins, and some adapting of some of the code to my own requirements, not only can I post on my main blog, and see the posts appear immediately on LiveJournal, but I can import comments back from LiveJournal onto my main blog, essentially consolidating the two.