The original intent of this blog was to just catalog and odd assortment of computer tips & tricks, recopies, thoughts about music, movies, and TV, and raving rants on politics. For whatever reason the first month has been primarily focused on Linux, computers, and technology in general. I have been pleased by the amounts of linkbacks i have gotten, the comments shared, and the overall daily hits I get.  It has been some great momentum for me, and other blogs I have attempts in the past have fallen flat on their ass.

I still want to explore the other avenues, but do not want to detract from the tech related topic but have a separate space entirely for the other topics without having to use yet another blog interface. I had tested b2evolution in the past and was impressed with its ability to implement multiple blogs seamlessly into one interface. I had once tried to maintain a multi-user multi-blog site with WordPress MU, but quickly found the MU edition lacked a lot of the polish and control offered by the single user standard edition. Now, my Oojah blogs will only have one author, but I wanted to give each general topic its own look and feel and keep them separate in some ways, but still part of the same site.

I installed a test run of b2evolution to get a feel for it, and see what changes may have been since the last time I checked it out. It provided me just the kind of interface I wanted and had some nice features already built into it, like a general stats engine.  Now the big question was how am I going to transfer my WordPress posts into a new b2evolution installation. Within b2evolution’s admin interface I clicked on Tools then Misc tab. Under the heading WordPress Import i found a hyper link to a database conversion tool. Everything said it worked without flaws and I confirmed the success by checking my Blog. Didn’t look like anything had happened. On a hunch a created my first blog on b2evolution, Oojah! Tech. Now I looked in Posts/Comments and everything including comments, categories, and tags had converted.

Now that I have successfully converted all my posts, comments, categories, and tags from WordPress to b2evolution I noticed there is not nearly the amount of themes availible to b2evolution that there are in WordPress. I had also fallen in love with the them Smilies Army by Ccucu. Fortunantly, b2Evolution had a tutorial on how to convert WordPress themes to b2Evolution skins.  However, i could not find the main loop string talked about in the tutorial, and I could not seem to get it to work. So Sadly, I had to hunt for a b2evolution theme I liked, and sadly there is not much of a selection and many of them are boring and do not reflect the pazas I liked about Smilies Army. So I am stuck with a boring theme, which I plan on editing later to ad some flare to it.