More to come with some posts later. I have some things to do for now.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
So I'm rushing back to my car to get the camcorder
This time I look down as I'm walking. I'm more aware of what is not around and threatening. So I'm watching where I'm walking. A bit surprised and wondering if I would have spotted this on my walk toward the building. I didn't remember seeing this and was glad to have avoided walking into this on the way there.
I don't think this would pass OSHA now.
Much of the roof gone. The wind whipping through the structure, the faint sound of a fan blade turning in the wind. Where's my video camera?
Here's another wide shot
This one from the street. There was nobody around, except a guy walking down the street with a garbage bag, but I didn't see him until later when I was in this lot.
Stopping at a Former GM facility
Now claimed by gang graphic artists I suppose. There was a big hardly every used parking lot next to it. I didn't realize this was likely part of this same property. Maybe because I was in a hurry to get to Mexican Town to meet up with some guys from LATOC web site. I was kind of tired, running late, but wanted some fresh pictures from 03-29-09 to add to the mix.
A Sample TItle For This Test Goes here
As you can see this has little to do with the Detroit blog here. This is just a test and I"m exporting the XML and comparing this added with the previous. The goal being to figure out if I can do raw manipulation, imports and exports of the blog and what modifications to the XML will allow me to merge and modify posts to bring more than one month under one month. If there is a simple way to manually do this, it might be kind of beneficial. There may be some tools to do this as well, but for now I'm trying the basic hack the raw export data, then reimport it method.
Okay it worked. It even put the inserted the new posting with an earlier publishing date time inserting it between older blog entries.
In my Studying decay2 blog, I'm going to show you some steps which should make it fairly clear how to import this.
Keys are :
1. Exported or downloading blog to hard drive.
2. Open up XML of new blog XML in text editing program.
3. Find TITLE of first post, then look back up for the "1999" label above it in the text file. It should be up not to far from the title, maybe a 3 to 5 lines up depending on your display.
"A Sample TItle For This Test Goes here" - in my case I used this title of this post which is shown in quotes and obviously a title in the newer blog post, which was in Studying Decay2. I simply searched for that TITLE and found the section with the blog post data. THen looked for the publishing date which was above the title after the "1999" section.
4. Look for publsh date, that date needs to be modified to the earlier month. Only that date field needs to be modified.
Each post in your blog after the first titled data area will be in this lower part of the text file and it will start with another 1999 label. Pretty easy to find.
5. For multiple posts just look down in the XML file for each 1999 label and then look for the PUBLISH date after that for each blog entry. Just change all the dates to the last date and time if you want them to appear after your last post. I changed mine to 03-31 as you can see but my time stamp was probably before the posts that are above this, so my new imported blog entries were inserted before some of them.
6. Save the XML perhaps as a new name.
7. You have this new XML file on your hard drive you simply need to open the older blog, and import the entries from your newer blog into it. You can either publish all of them or some of them using the blogging tool. Your new blog entries will be in the older blog with a date that you choose in the publish. With this method you can merge blogs together and reorder them. It's a little tedious but it works if you want all your entries under one blog.
More to come with some screen shots on the Studying decay2 blog.
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