Meta: Desiderata
Here's a thing I want.
A canonical text encoding for blog posts: capturing time, date, user, categories, and markup including links and quotes. Preferably also an encoding for capturing comments.
I have to upgrade the web server here, and I need to be able to archive my posts from both Wordpress and Livejournal in a big dumb text file somewhere in case of meltdown. I don't trust webapps to not destroy my words, and some of these might be useful to look back on. Also, I need to somehow consolidate them into one big pile (or several small piles) at some point.
I'd rather not have lots of opaque XML markup, but I'm figuring there must be a canonical XML or YAML encoding by now for blog text, right? It's a simple, well-defined problem with an easy solution, so it's already been done, right?
(Crickets chirp).
Not bitter. Just very, very jaded.
