Orthographs: The Book!

If you're an Orthodox convert, or know someone who is, you need this book. Author Steve Robinson is the co-host of the Our Life In Christ podcast, is a convert himself, and is both brilliant and funny, with a keen eye for the absurdities of Orthodox life.

Converts with a sense of humor will see themselves in its pages. Those without a sense of humor may be offended. Both are excellent reasons why it should be in your collection. Buy this book!

Pithless Thoughts: Orthographs - THE BOOK!

How to import a Posterous blog into Blogger

I’ve been playing with Blogger lately, and have been very impressed with how much better it is than I remember it being just a couple of years ago. So much so, in fact, that I decided to import some of my stuff to Blogger in order to try it out on an extended basis.

The problem? Blogger only imports sites in a specific Blogger-only format. If you want to import a Wordpress, Tumblr or Posterous blog you’re out of luck. Or are you?

As it happens, no, you’re not. I was able to import some of my Posterous stuff into Blogger, but I did it using Wordpress.com. Wordpress?

Yes, Wordpress. Turns out that Wordpress.com has an importer that can handle Posterous blogs quite nicely—images, comments, and everything. Go into your Wordpress dashboard (once you’ve opened a WP account, of course) and click on Tools > Import > Posterous. But once you get it into Wordpress, you’re only halfway there. You still need to convert it to a format that Blogger can handle.

Solution: Wordpress2Blogger. Hosted on Google App Engine, it allows you to upload your file, converts it, and downloads a Blogger-friendly XML file to your computer. It’s supposedly limited to files of 1 MB or smaller (although it handled my 1.1 MB file just fine), but it’s open-source and you can run it locally by going to code.google.com/p/google-blog-converters-appengine/. There are also links there to other apps that will convert a wide variety of formats, including converting your Blogger files to something else if you want to move on.

Thanks to Google’s Data Liberation Front for making such a useful tool!

The only four chords you need

(From Randy Coppinger, via David Dickens)

Hitler vs. Constantin Film AG

I have no idea how long this will be up, but I have to post it while it's there. This, my friends, is the definitive Hitler "Downfall" parody.

(via Andy Ihnatko)

A non-U.S. 'American' vehicle

Seen on I-210: a Mexican-market Dodge Ramcharger, a model not sold in the U.S.

Collateral murder

Although it's been posted by several others, including on Google Buzz, I'm also posting it, because it needs to be seen by as many people as possible. Draw your own conclusions.

Earlier today, I posted a comment on a Buzz thread in which I said that calling it "collateral murder" was reprehensible sensationalism.

I hereby withdraw that comment.

Gmail's 6th Birthday today!

From Posterous Photos

Following on from a Buzz post by Sean Walsh (http://goo.gl/ipGD), today is Gmail's sixth birthday, and in honor of that, here's a screenshot of the first Gmail I received.