When I started blogging some years ago, I did it kind of as an exercise in perl.. to see if I could actually write a whole blog. I did. It worked pretty good, and it was my content management system for over a year. Then I decided to move to something more ‘commercial’ – Movable Type. I wrote an exporter that grabbed the stuff out of the storage mechanism I was using and wrote it to XML that the movable type importer could understand. Then when I got my own hosting, b2evolution provided an importer that would read MT exported entries. Now, I have no way of getting my stuff OUT of b2evolution. *sigh*.