Andrew Beaton :: Blog

Well it’s been over four months since my last update. I guess the reason for such a quiet period is because of all the other methods of communication currently out there.

I’ve been using Facebook a lot recently, now that nearly all of my friends are members. And Twitter has allowed me to get all the little things off my chest whenever and wherever I feel the urge to vent.

One thing I’m hoping will get me back into blogging, not counting my lovely new blog design, is my iPod touch. I’ve finally got around to setting it up to be more than a music player and I’ve just installed the Wordpress app. In fact I’m using it right now to write this post.

So fingers crossed you’ll be reading a lot more from me very soon.

I recently had to ugrade an old B2 blog to Wordpress. A couple of years ago this would have been an easy task as B2 was just coming to an end and Wordpress becoming more popular. Unfortunately, that was in 2005 and wordpress have since removed this feature from their code. I feel I left that blog out there for a bit too long.

I’m suprised that being so old it hadn’t been hacked to death by now, maybe the changes I made to the admin system prevented that or maybe it was the fact that people found the content so interesting, they did not want to break it.

Anyway, it took me a while to find this site as I doubt there are many B2 blogs still out there, but if you want to upgrade to the latest Wordpress database format then simply follow the instructions on this website.

It took me about an hour to find the script, five minutes to run it and now the new website is up and running with all the old comments and posts.

So a big thanks to Aral Balkan for spending the time creating this script for us B2 oldies.