For anyone curious enough, here’s the query I used to migrate from Drupal 6.8 to WordPress 2.9:

INSERT INTO wp_posts (id, post_author, post_date, post_content, post_title, post_excerpt, post_name, post_modified, post_status)
SELECT DISTINCT 120+n.nid, 1, FROM_UNIXTIME(created), body, n.title, teaser, REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(LOWER(n.title),' ', '-'),'.', '-'),',', '-'),'+', '-'),FROM_UNIXTIME(changed), "draft"
FROM drupal6_node n, drupal6_node_revisions r
WHERE n.vid = r.vid;


The 120+ vaue in the ID field is because I currently had 120 items in my wp_posts table already, and each post must have a unique ID. So, I simply added a value of 120 to whatever ID value was in Drupal. The ’1′ value in the post_author field assigns my WordPress user ID as the author of each article. I also added a post_status of “draft” so I could go through the articles, verify their integrity, and then publish them.

First off, my apologies for lack of photos. I thought about documenting it while I worked, but it was late last night. However, I do need to replace some of my handiwork with proper stuff like heat shrink and insulated wires to cut down on some radio interference.

First, I cut the iPod/iPhone adapter from the Pixxo unit, and saw that there were 8 wires (red, black, white, green, yellow, brown, purple and orange). Next, I cut a micro USB cable and saw that while it was well shielded on the outside, inside the foil insulator were only four wires (red, black, white and green). I twisted the matching wires together, taped it up enough that nothing was shorted, and tested it in the car, and my Nexus One started charging. w00t

Only thing left was to trim the wires back as far as I felt comfortable, shorten up the micro USB plug, and get everything taped up better. Which worked like a champ, except that I had no electrical tape, and I’m sure that as good as blue 3M Painter tape is, actual electrical tape or heat shrink would do a much better job.

Then, I shortened and spliced a stereo 3.5mm audio cable, as the one that shipped with the Pixxo unit was about two inches two short.

The net result:

(hosted at picasa)

0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com facebook.com apps.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.myspace.com myspace.com
0.0.0.0 www.digg.com digg.com

etc. Add as many sites as you want. When you want to stop being productive at work, simply comment out those lines (like during a lunch break). Just be sure to uncomment the lines when you need to be productive again…

Lately though, I archive everything through file shares and private FTP sites and have a few USB devices for quick copies of data if I need to be portable. But then, that’s why I got a laptop too…

Update: June 1, 2007
Lately I use logmein.com, which is a free service and does everything I need to access my wife’s Windows machine at home. Of course since I’m a full-time Linux geek now, I just SSH into my Linux workstation at home…

update: May 2005
obviously, geeklog isn’t xhtml 1.1 strict compliant, so that’ll give me something to do in all that spare time i have