Finals Week

~ Laura

We have entered into a new era of parenting. It’s called finals week.

Jonah has two big exams this week, so he spent most of the weekend in his bedroom completing review packets. Because Jonah was trapped at home, so was the rest of the family. No trips to the city or the beach, yet.

We worked on Jonah’s study skills together. I can’t help him with math anymore. It’s officially over my head. But I can teach him how to study. Some kids just know how to keep organized and to study efficiently. Other kids need to be taught that skill. We experimented with the 40 minute-20 minute plan. He worked for 40 minutes and then when the buzzer went off on the oven timer, he took a 20 minute break and watched Pawn Stars on the History Channel. He made some flash cards for French. (He hates that.) We kept his spirits up.

Since I was trapped in the house, I worked on blog-geekery. I fooled around with moving this blog to yet another blog platform. I was unsuccessful. This blog with ten years of blog posts is an eighteen wheeler of data that we’re trying to squeeze into a tiny parking space. I need to spend a few more hours with tech support to make that happen. Maybe later in the week. Today, I have to finish off the last article before our summer break.

A few blog posts before I get to work….

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5 thoughts on “Finals Week”

  1. If you find out how to move a behemoth of a blog, let me know. We want to leave Typepad for Squarespace (via WordPress) but I can’t move my files without losing all my photos. With the photos, it’s too big. But I don’t want to lose my images – I’m a photographer!

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    1. Really? I moved from Typepad to WordPress and my pictures travelled with me.

      I fooled around with SquareSpace for a couple of days. I can’t remember if I actually plugged in my data or just put in some dummy posts to see how I liked the design. I thought that Square Space was great if your blog posts are 80% pix, 20% words, but the design didn’t look great for 100% words.

      I migrated from Typepad to WordPress.com just fine. However, wordpress.com doesn’t let you plug in ads. I don’t make huge amounts of money from ads, but it’s easy money that I don’t want to lose.

      I had huge problems transferring all the data from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. Tech support at the hosting company spent hours dealing with it. I gave up and paid some geeks at wordpress.com to deal with it for me. $100 or so. I have 10 years worth of blog posts and the file of data is simply too huge.

      BTW, this blog will be shut down all day tomorrow.

      I’ve learned a ton about blog platforms and designs and all that this past month. Ask me questions while the information is still fresh.

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  2. The way it was explained to me is that the Typepad export file includes not the actual picture files but only the links to the images (which continue to live on Typepad). That is all well as long as you keep the Typepad blog going so that the WordPress blog can refer back to the images on Typepad. (Am I making this clear?) The moment you close the account on Typepad, you lose all the image links and have nada. I do want to shut down the Typepad account and not pay twice.

    If you want the actual file with the images embedded, you have to request this from Typepad help desk. If you have a paid account, they are required to process this file for you. My export file w/o the images was 2 MB, with the images 411MB. Which made import into WordPress impossible b/c they don’t accept import files larger than 15MB.

    So, was your file smaller? Or do you plan to continue the Typepad blog as a storage solution for the images?

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    1. Ah, interesting about the images…. I’m still paying for the Typepad account, because traffic is still going there. Will probably keep it going for a year or so.

      My WP file was 63 MB without the image files. You can still import that file to wordpress, but you have to talk to someone at the hosting company to change the limits.

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  3. I host my images on a photo site — Smugmug. That keeps the blog platform independent of the photos, but then, of course, you have to pay for the photo hosting & the blog.

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