Bye Bye Blogger

Blogger is eliminating support for FTP publishing as of March 26, 2010.  For once in my life, I’m not waiting until the last minute to change.

I previously experimented with WordPress, then had the mySQL database explode when I attempted an upgrade, so I reverted to Blogger, and have been fat, dumb, and moderately happy since.

After a quick review, I’m looking at WordPress (again), and Movable Type.  I considered using Drupal, and it looks interesting, but I don’t have the bandwidth this year to go deep geek with Open Source. 

I have installed WordPress 2.9.2, and I’m having issues importing ten years of Blogger posts. I don’t want to retain 150 Meg of redundant posts, so I’m looking into alternate methods of exporting and importing Blogger data.

Any input is appreciated. 

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