Admin Notice: Migration

You may have noticed that the blogspot version of TYR looks funny. The news is that we're moving - with luck, our national nightmare of blog bifurcation and manually maintained archive links (there's a reason the ones on TYR classic haven't been updated in years) will be at an end.

Before this happens, though, I'd like to thank whichever bloody idiot at Google has broken the Blogger Data API, so that Blogger-Wordpress exports no longer work. This has made my life a misery for the last week or so. I've so far tried - the official, server-to-server migration, which doesn't work, the horrible hack of trying to server-server import the Blogger blog into a temporary Wordpress.com blog, then dump the Wordpress export file, then upload that (12MB over a crappy ADSL uplink topping out below 100Kbps), the even worse hack of dumping the Blogger export, then uploading that to Wordpress.com, the same thing having "converted your template to New Blogger" after Blogger refused to give me the dump file, etc, etc.

And no migration. Also, it turns out to my utter horror that the Wordpress.com thing about not liking anything with a <script tag> - like Google Maps (although they have finally and grudgingly accepted that one) or IBM ManyEyes - exists in an independently hosted Wordpress install, too. Apparently there's a plugin. Seriously - a third party extension to stop it mangling my stuff. Shouldn't this just be a config option so I can just turn it off? So I'm actively considering binning WP and installing Movable Type instead. Such, such were the joys.

So I'd like to apologise to anyone I've been grumpy towards as a result. And the blog will soon be back, better, stronger, more orange, and 50% less bifurcated. If you link to us, you will soon be notified of the new URI, and I will chase you up. Once the Neo-Ranter is operational (technically it's operational now, just there's nothing in it), I'm going to close comments on the other versions and eventually shut them down, once I've SQL-d the links so that they all point within the new blog.