A person parks a vehicle and begins canoeing at a point along a stream, B, which is equidistant from two points on the stream, A and C. The stream flows from point C toward point A and beyond.  If the person canoes to point C, “up” stream, and loses all means of locomotion then the person can simply ride the current back to point B.  However, if the person canoes from point B to point A, “down” stream and loses all means of locomotion then the only way to get back to point B is by portaging the canoe.  Therefore, the idiom should be “DOWN shit creek without a paddle.”  QED.

I think I’ve tweaked WordPress to the point where I’m happy (for now).  I added the background image – it’s my backyard.  The theme I had to adjust some to get it just so, but that’s the life of a geek.

I put back the missing images from the older posts that did manage to migrate from BlogML.  I’m not going to worry about any of the older posts, they were rubbish anyway.

Now, about some content…

I decided to re-migrate to WordPress.  Or is that un-migrate from the other blog engine?

In any case it was a painful migration.  My old blog engine can only export to BlogML format, but WordPress doesn’t have a BlogML import utility.  Someone created one a while ago but it only supports up to WordPress 2.5.

At present I’m missing a large number of posts from my old blog.  Until I find the time or ambition to import them manually, they’re just gone.  No big loss I suppose.