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Gotta please the people

Posted 22 November 2005 in technology

I've discovered that, low-and-behold, the words "xanga" and "archive" account for well over 50% of my hits from Google. I guess I had better improve the script further. Ugh. Xanga has been making improvements, but there's still almost no structure to their HTML, so extraction of posts and comments is still a painful process.

Meanwhile, I've made no progress towards making the posts Wordpress- importable. I think it's about time I fixed that, because it's so critical that people have a way to move off of Xanga if they want to. Soon, soon, my precious...

Wow, I am exhausted. I just have to make it through today, and then I'm scot free.

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