Nothing is quite as much fun as seeing this on my screen:

Done copying data from Berkeley DB to your SQL database! All went well.

Okay, there are things that are slightly more fun, but it’s always pleasing when a conversion goes well. This is over at Cyber Dyke Blog by the way, where I am using a commercially-licensed version of Movable Type. (I switched to WP over here so I could hide certain posts, not because I don’t like MT!) For some reason the control panel on the cydyblog.net domain, DirectAdmin, wouldn’t let me delete the existing cydyblog_wordpress database (I had used WP there for about two days) and wouldn’t let me do a DROP DATABASE in PHPMyAdmin. So I just dropped all the tables from that database and used its connection information for the MT configuration. The conversion took a while, but at the end I got that lovely line you see above, so everything went well! It’s a little odd seeing tables with the prefix mt_ in a database called cydyblog_wordpress but I don’t intend to actually go into there much anyway, so it doesn’t matter.

I love being a blog geek!