I started a blog about five years ago—FunnyStrange.net in case you are interested. This blog was constructed on Typepad’s paid platform, and now I have a tech conundrum that I could solve, but the question is—do I want to put in the considerable man-hours hand-coding each link into a redirection when that blog is so far entrenched in the search engines? The question answers itself, obviously—although I LOVE the freedom, look, and increased functionality of WordPress and would love to upgrade Funny Strange into this (in my opinion) far-superior platform, that blog has over 700 posts, and so I’m afraid this is a “shoemaker’s children have no shoes” situation, where I COULD update the technology, but I do not. I actually did port over a Typepad blog for a client several months ago, but even with a limited (and I’m talking about under 25) number of posts, the import was far from seamless and needed a ton of cleanup.
Of course, every time WordPress releases a new plugin, I seethe with envy because I can’t use it on my blog. Them’s the breaks, I suppose. One of my former techie co-workers implored me to “never let the software win,” and I wouldn’t, but I just don’t have 20 hours of
