So you’ve learned how to backup your del.icio.us data with something like this:

curl -o delicious.xml -u username:password "http://del.icio.us/api/posts/recent?count=10000"

(Well, the 10000 most recent entries anyway!)

(Note: Since originally writing this, a new method was added: http://del.icio.us/api/posts/all might be used instead. See the API docs for details.)

Now what?

Obviously you run some sick and twisted perl code on it and you get an HTML page that lists all your posts, by tag, with posts displaying under each tag they belong to…

Anyway, that’s what dir.licio.us does…

(It ignores the timestamp and extended field, but you could hack those in if so inclined…)

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In a thread titled OOo conversion to XHTML for CMS import, we learn a few things, like OpenOffice.org documents (ending with .sxw) are zipped, and you can upzip them and there’s XML and images in them thar files!

More importantly, we learn that people are finding ways to get documents parsed and into other systems. I mean, we did this in the past, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say that they need some sort of “Microsoft Word to CMS conversion/importer” and then there’s much hand-wringing and thought and discussion.

I often forget about OpenOffice.org because to me, office documents just aren’t as exciting as other things, but I’m glad there are people working on it, and who knows, someday I might find office documents totally fascinating!

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