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On importing Blogger into Movable Type…

I can’t be the only person in the world who finds bits of Movable Type endlessly frustrating. You try and import two and a half years of Blogger entries, and it chokes almost immediately. Or to be more precise, Pair chokes on it. And it chokes half-way through carefully organised files you’ve made so that you can import in chunks. And when that happens you can’t easily go and find the entries that are part of the last batch, because it can’t render the list of entries in its entirety without (surprise) pair.com choking on it. Because you see, there’s no ‘next page’ link on the entries page – instead you have to show all entries.

And when it’s importing from more than one file, it doesn’t import them in a logical order that I can see, so you duplicate some file’s entries and miss others completely. And when you get too frustrated with the process, and reconcile yourself to using Blogger until you die, and you try to delete the blog you’ve created, pair.com choke once more, throwing up endless server errors until you finally want everyone surrounding you to die and are spitting chunks and throwing strops. This can’t be right. This is all wrong. Surely.

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Giorgio Armani and a tasteless death joke…

Tasteless comment of the day: Davo: In other news, I now smell like Georgio Armani. Tom: What? Dead?

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The new iMac reaches Wired.com…

Read all about it! The new iMac reaches Wired.com.

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The leaked iMac starts making sense…

So my first impressions of the leaked iMac were fairly negative, but as I’ve seen the specs for the machines and seen them in context, I’m beginning to realise how cool it could be. Be warned, this may actually be the future of computing after all. In the meantime, not a lot more to report from my favourite company – a larger iBook and a new application: iPhoto. My computer is now officially obselete…

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Which Barbelith member are you?

Another Barbelith offshoot: Which ‘Lither Are You?. “I don’t believe it, you’re Tom Coates. The founder. Doesn’t post much anymore. I worry about his bandwidth. Your answers suggest a correspondence of 64% to Tom Coates.”

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Is this what we've all been waiting for?

Is this what we’ve all been waiting for? If so, I’m not entirely convinced at this stage, however happy my hero looks.

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I want Davo back…

I hate it when Davo goes away for holidays. I feel cheated enough by his sporadic posting. But weeks without it? It’s just not fair.

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Songs for never-were and used-to-be lovers…

Songs for never-were and used-to-be lovers: Something So Right, Everloving, Calling it Quits. There are others, but they’re too cheesy.

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I am actually doing stuff, you know…

You know, just because I’m not posting very much at the moment doesn’t mean that I’m not working on exciting plasticbag.org related projects. I just wanted to make sure you understood that.

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The Barbelith Fictionsuit Generator…

You know a forum’s really successful when someone spends time developing a little gadget to help you get the ideal username. Presenting the Barbelith Fictionsuit Generator. This is Count ForbiddenLove signing off…