Well, I finally went and found a way to export all my old LiveJournal entries and shoehorn them into WordPress. Unfortunately, it’s going to take quite a lot of time to go through and edit them all and make sure that they are working in the WP system and not messed up.
On a cursory examination, I found that a lot of the HTML tagging didn’t survive the XML exporting, but that’s OK. There’s also more than a fair share of spelling mistakes sitting in a lot of those entries, and old graphics that I’m sure either aren’t around or need to be relocated.
But the archive now goes back for around four years, which is a pretty neat look into at least my seminary life, if not more. I would suggest that, if you’re truly interested, you go ahead and read back through some of the older entries I have while I work on reformatting them for WordPress, including adding titles for some of the entries and cleaning up the capitalization and style of a lot of them (for instance, using my custom tags for specific citations and music usages).
I’m just happy that I was able to work around the poor limitations of the LiveJournal exporting tool and use something that was far easier and more readily used. I should also, I figure, try to re-create many of the comments that exist. It’s going to be quite the job, but I would very much like to have every single bit of web I’ve made using a database of some kind, all in one location.