I’ve been slowly warming to LiveJournal, not because I love its interface or features, but because I have a number of friends over there I keep tabs on. I post infrequently enough to this blog, and coming up with more posts to put in a LJ seems far-fetched, at best.

To the rescue: the LiveJournal Crossposter, a WordPress plugin that automatically copies posts from my blog to my LJ as I make them. I was going to let it copy every post from here to LJ, but that went poorly; somewhere after the first hundred posts or so, the plugin tried to shove some malformed XML at LiveJournal, and its parser barfed with a delightful Perl error message.

As a result, I only managed to push posts from 2003, and not wanting a gap in there, I went through and deleted them all from LJ. By hand. This is why I’m using WordPress. I do stupid power-user stuff like this all too often.

With any luck, this should be my first post on LiveJournal. To those of you following my blank LJ already: hello, and I apologize if I just spammed your friends pages with a honking huge pile of old posts that are now deleted. With even more luck (and possibly a miracle or two), I’ll post things often enough to make it interesting for people.

Originally published at nyerm. You can comment here or there.