Blog Confusion: How to convert and import from Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal

As I'm testing and developing the QNAP WordPress installation for production, I wondered if there was a way to import from my pages on Blogger/Blogspot. After more than twenty-(20) open tabs I gave up on it for a while and let the idea stew -- threw myself at figuring out Joomla! in the meantime.

A few minutes ago while thinking of how to import the blog instead to Joomla! or how to integrate WordPress in the the framework I stumbled across this post on how Google has nicely provided some conversion tools *awesome!*

These are current services available:
http://blogger2wordpress.appspot.com/
http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/
http://livejournal2blogger.appspot.com/

All you have to do is to export your Blogger/Blogspot blog in an XML and feed this into the converter for processing - then done!

A note of caution though, I tried using Mac Safari on them and it didn't work. Pefectly working however on Windows XP, which was what I did before uploading to a network share and finishing off with the Mac.

Now my next project, how to split the QNAP WordPress into more than one-(1) blog to accomodate both this and my personal blog. Better yet if one of the Joomla! developers release a free version of the WordPress integration tool. *sigh*

QNAP: Joomla! and Wordpress - Installation Errors

I've finally figured out the problem causing the installation failure of extensions, write permissions on the folders under /share/Qweb/Joomla/

It makes sense, if you can't write to it then you can't damn well install it. If only the installation would take care of those issues automatically, eh?

Make sure to issue chmod 777 (that's read and writer permissions) for the ff: folders:
/share/Qweb/Joomla
/share/Qweb/wordpress

In fact the JoomlaHack Tip #3 mentions having to change file and folder permissions. Earlier in 2007 and later in 2008 there are several posts from QNAPAndy that mention this needs to be done for everything under the /share/Qweb subfolder.

I have recommended about the same for WordPress in this QNAP Forum thread.

QNAP: Add another drive to RAID 6, Part II

Its already Tuesday and the expansion is stuck at 75%. All services don't want to work and the space shown via ssh is only 25-MB, plus /dev/md0 is unmounted. The system is still emitting that irritating double long beep every so often that I hear it in my sleep.

There is too much data on those RAID drives now, now way will I accept it getting lost. Knock on wood! I'm scared and loosing sleep over it :-(

I saw a link to someone having expansion problems in the forum as well as the follow-up solution. In case a reboot won't work there was another way shown. ..... Its a backup plan.

But really, hopefully my process actually works and I can send some more positive feedback to users who would rather not have to mess with the internals and stick to the interface. Though QNAP Tech Support is in California and sound to be very helpful, I'd much rather not have to deal with any form of remote access to my machines as much as possible.

Lets be clear that the SATA Disk view still says that all my drives are healthy. The fact that /dev/md0 is already unmounted may actually mean that at 75% this is in Step #9 of the suggested manual expansion process. :-)

But I'm still not sure :-(