I've been posting mostly 15-20 times per month, except when I was away on vacation in August. I've got 11 for November, and 3 so far in December.

November took a shit when the previous host moved me to their new datacenter, and I spent several full-time days' worth of my life trying to get that corrected. Plus there was setting up the newsletter/mailing list system.

Finally I just decided, "Fuck it, I'm moving."

The new host has been worlds better. The configuration is sane -- meaning it's exactly the same as every other Linux host has been for the last several years. The support people actually know what they're talking about. They're stricter on the email controls, which is good because it means they're fighting spam, but it's inconvenient for me since their policy is to do it slightly different from how I do it.

This has forced me to get my head back into code in a way it hasn't been for several years. I'm getting reacquainted with Vi (that's good, kiss my ass Scott :-P ) and I just rediscovered how much faster I am on some DB tasks from the command line than from a GUI. I'm sure I'm still writing PHP4 in PHP5, but I can live with that for now.

I'm about 10% of the way into a complete rewrite of the autoresponder. All the other good options require monthly fees, which at my volume would be ~$35/mo. And I'd have to rebuild my integration with a new system anyway. If you know anyone who will be wanting a system in the next month or two, let me know. I plan on doing sales/installations of it once I'm done.

Salvaging the content was helped enormously by the fact that I picked a layout I could live with over a year ago and deviated from it as little as possible. It only took a set of 8 RegExes run on each post to strip the Blogspot-isms and make it Wordpress-friendly.

Comments were another matter. Google had a bug in their system that dozens of people were reporting, as it was breaking a bunch of popular widgets. I finally got everything stuffed into the database, but by then there were duplicates all over the place, as well as orphan comments attached to the wrong posts, or no post.

Those were a matter of looking at every single post and comparing post counts to the old system; and where they don't match, comparing individual comments: 442 posts (plus revisions), 5,599 comments. Tedious? Why yes, thank you for asking.

The two pieces I have left that I know aren't done are:

1) I don't have any ads on the site yet. I haven't been making a ton from them, so I'm not in a hurry.

2) Blogspot and WordPress build URLs from titles differently. There are still some that won't redirect properly. I've got about a half-dozen specific re-writes, and about that many more that I set the URL manually in WP to match the old one.

3) (Dammit, three things not done.) I haven't tested the Google Analytics code. On the old system, I had it set up to segregate by subdomain. The new system has everything on the main domain, so I don't know how that's going to break yet.