Joining the stream of LiveJournal refugees

Like so many other people, I’ve just abandoned LiveJournal due to the increasing entanglement with Russia, the degraded security (they turned off HTTPS for crying out loud!) and the terrible implications of Russian law on speech, particularly political speech and that related to queer topics.

As of today the LiveJournal import plugin built into current (hosted or not) versions WordPress is broken. Furthermore the Internet is littered with fragmentary and incomplete advice about how one might work around this problem. Nevertheless, I persisted 🙂

I managed to export my LiveJournal entries by using ljdump and then importing them into a private, off-the-public-Internet WordPress 2.7.1 instance that still supported the old XML LiveJournal import format. Then I edited the posts and comments in the private instance, and exported them back to WordPress format, then imported them here. I may write more about this and share the tools as soon.

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Hello world!

I am not 100% sure if I am going to use this yet.

Obscure.org down due to power outage

Alas, the big storms have knocked obscure.org and its hosted domains offline. This should come back up when power and FiOS service are restored.

See: https://www.dom.com/storm-center/northva.jsp

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPad.

New Game: My #1 Google Creations (without searching for your name)

Here's a Google game I just came up with. The challenge is to find Google searches that return something you've created as the #1 entry without using your name. You get bonus points for short or amusing phrases, or if the results say something interesting about you.

Here are some examples for me:

• commit discipline
• 6502 assembly poem
• obscure non-commercial
• battle tested vegan chocolate cake
• linux security barn door open
• raid lvm recovery
• selinux mambo exploit
• Collaborative Software Development NASA DoD
• forge.mil pki enablement
• connection pooling jdbc driver microstate

6502 Assembly poem on the birth of my latest (nicknamed Little Bit)

         ; Welcome Declan!

LDA #$1F ; five bits in a row
SEC      ; set carry flag
ROL A    ; shift left one little bit

         ; http://www.6502.org/tutorials/6502opcodes.html

Welcome, Declan Douglas Bullington-McGuire

We are proud to announce the birth of our fourth child, Declan Douglas Bullington-McGuire, born at 7:11 AM by C-section at Virginia Hospital Center. Declan weighs10.5 lbs and is 21.5 in long. Both Patricia and Declan are recovering from birth well.

Bitten by the Twitter bug, I’m now @obscurerichard

I’m interested in ways people are using Twitter both personally and professionally. If you have a handle, please let me know.

I’m @obscurerichard there:

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