Questions
By Mitch Berg
Since someone among my group of readers knows pretty much anything that exists, I have two questions:
- What’s the trick to exporting Moveable Type blogs to WordPress? My old blog has about 8,000 posts; I can only get MT to export about 6,000 before it coughs. What do I need to do?
- While the official age to get a job in Minnesota is 16, my daughter (15) is bugging me to find out what the exceptions are. Where can one work? What does one need to do?
Thanks in advance.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:04 am
She can’t work before 7 AM or after 9 PM
She can’t work during school hours
and she can’t work more than 8 hours in a 24 hour period – can’t work more than 40 hours in a week.
Other restrictions…
can’t operate heavy machinery. Can’t work in a bar or restaurant where alcohol is served. where hazardous materials are used including explosives. (Sorry Hon, you’ll have to wait till you’re 18 to work in Hudson selling Bottle Rockets)
Can’t work on a commercial transportation vehicle – boat bus or limo unless acting as a guide. Can’t drive a cab or work on a railway operating a locomotive.
Can’t work in a laundry. can’t operate snowblowers or garden equipment. can’t operatre deli slicers or bread making machines.can’t work in a carwash where automatic equipment is used. Can’t work in service stations as a pump attendant. Ummm, nevermind. your dad can explain that one… can’t change tires. can’t work at the airport near the landing strips or on service aprons. Can’t work in nursing home or hospitalwhere you would be required to lift or care for patients.
When my daughter was 15 , she worked as a cashier at a small local gas station and she worked at Curves. Although places like Home Depot or Walmart may not hire her, a small neighborhood hardware store might. I recomment 7 corners hardware… best hardware store in Minnesota… My son who is about to turn 15 will be working for my company doing filing, document scanning and sorting mail. She may want to check small business’s in the neighborhood. Check small private lawyers offices.
Good Luck!
December 8th, 2006 at 9:03 am
My son got a job at 15 in the then Camp Snoopy in what is called park services…cleaning bathrooms, emptying trash containers, cleaning spills (of all natures), sweeping etc.
And Good Luck!
December 8th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Here’s the State of MN document on Child Labor …
http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=266711
December 8th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
For the MT thing I would backup the MT database, see if I can dump half the blogpost records into temp tables, then try to take on the export 4000 posts at a time. I am not familiar with the MT db layout, so I can’t give any useful details, sorry.
December 9th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
According to hour 9 of my Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 hours book, it doesn’t place a maximum on export size or number of blog posts. It does, however, state that Internet Explorer will sometimes (and it doesn’t say why or in what circumstances) treat the exported data as HTML instead of plaintext which will corrupt it on the other side.
The book also recommends saving the exported data to the hard drive on your local computer before attempting to import it into something else. If you can save all the posts first, then you can split the data into smaller files for upload into WordPress.
Hope it helps.