Journal migration

I found a tool that allows migration between livejournal-like sites:
http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/266462.html

You can run this to mirror your journal over to insanejournal or maybe some others. It incorporates LJDUMP which makes an XML copy of all entries and comments on your local hard drive, so that's an additional backup.

I also wrote my own using Perl, and used that. I had mine mostly done when I found the above, and after running the above, I didn't think the above was properly mirroring a couple of properties. Also the above forces "date out of order" at all times on the destination, so the written entries don't show up on flists and a few other things.

Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to copy comments, at least in their normal format. I think I may try to write something that rolls up all comments as an HTML chunk and then post them as a single comment authored by myself.

I figure it can't hurt to keep a copy around elsewhere.

Audiobook finished

The Shadow of Saganami by David Weber

Another Honorverse book (Saganami Island subseries book 2). Pretty good, enough naval battles to satisfy, and some important happenings in the new frontier "fringe" worlds - those poor backwaters that are suddenly not so backwater due to the discovery of a wormhole terminus that leads from Manticore's shipping junction to the Talbott cluster. The worlds governments ask to be annexed by Manticore (to protect them from Solarian frontier security), but during constitutional deliberations, a couple of guerrilla groups on a couple of worlds decide to fight the "imperialist" subjugation of their worlds with violence.

The reader (Darryl Brennaman) is OK. I played it at "fast" speed otherwise he's too slow for me. He mispronounces words occasionally but it's not too bad, really a pretty decent read.