You know, it must be a sign of maturity... no, old people (like me) are always grumpy (not!). As a part of resurrecting the blog, I decided also to resurrect my old links area on BlinkList. If you click that link now, you will say Geez, doesn't Jim save anything? Well, last night I had several thousand links out there until I decided to backup, cleanup, and reload them. Seemed simple enough, using the BlinkList tools, that I could do just that: export them as BlinkList XML, edit them (a little grep/sed/awk-ing to clean out the crap), and then import them again. Right? Wrong. The import process generated a ream of SQL errors and my BlinkList was destroyed. Annihilated. Poof. Gone.
Lucky for me, I was an early adopter of BlinkList (it really is a super tool!) and happened to have the email of the chief geek on the project. Hoping he was still connected with the project, I emailed him and got a quick response. Unfortunately, not the right response. So, I am now off to concoct my own solution! Time to write a little perl code to see if I can get around this problem! We shall see...
Update @ 1530...
I just realized I still had a ton of those links on Furl as well. Mostly older unfortunately. So, I did a quick export from Furl and am now attempting a bookmark import at BlinkList. Attempting is the keyword here - it has been running for about 15 minutes so far...Update @ 2130...
Well, I have some of the old bookmarks added, but without tags or categories :( Time to do some serious coding I do believe!Update @ 2200...
Wasted enough time on BlinkList. It is a real shame, but I have more important things to do rather than debug someone else's software process. I understand it is a free system, etc., etc., etc. I also understand that they have an obvious programming problem which, oh well, isn't going to be fixed anytime soon. Cut my losses and move on.
http://thebravenewworldorder.blogspot.com/
Add this to your links but first, enjoy the ear and eye candy of "Geeks R Us" that we are!
http://www.redicecreations.com/ Moderate THIS why donncha! Head thrown back, evil laugh!
Am so ill today with flu/cold and too [uselessly] medicated to bash the trolls in forums so am travelling the tubes wormholes/links finding GOOODIES for GEEKS R Us geeks and geekettes.
Found this and loved it: "The more conspiracies I digest, the less paranoid I become."
Maybe you had to be there?
okay wait: if I digest too many conspiracies will I become intellectually constipated or quite the opposite or intellectually colonic cleansed?
yeah, I know, its the meds -- some weird awful tasting new lozenge called Cold-Eaze and 2 cuppa's has me actually quite wasted, shame I'm too sick to enjoy it!