People are not software

When I manually migrated all 150 WordPress posts to my photography blog, I did so knowing I could automate the process using software export and import tools. My programmer friend laughed at my struggle and asked why I make things hard for myself when software can do all the work? He even offered to code me a tool for the job (he is, of course, used to me enduring the longer and rockier roads). I thought about that for a while because, on the surface, it seems a reasonable use of software to ease such a burden. Apart from the fact that I've always manually done such tasks, going through each and every post and photo allowed me to fix errors. More importantly, it allowed me to reflect on every post and photo, reliving those moments in some small way. The migration required numerous hours, but it became a personal and organic journey through the past 18 months of holidays, thoughts, changes, struggles, locations, cameras, and photographic learning. All of that is important and can't be…