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In an attempt to fix some service issues that I had been experiencing with Comcast, I contacted them on the phone to swap out my cablemodem with a new DOCSIS v.3 model that I had picked up.  The rep on the phone insisted that I was paying too much, and proceeded to make changes to my account to fix how much I was paying.  Long story short, my cable bill shot up to over $300/month.  This fed me up enough to find a way to finally join a growing number of people and “cut the cord”.  My issue was that I wanted to find a way to cut the cord, without losing access to the content that my family enjoys.  This is where I turned my attention to the SlingTV.

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Hadn’t updated my blog back-end in a couple years, so decided to take a look at what was new with MovableType, my choice of back-end software for blogging needs.  Unfortunately, it seems that sometime last year sixapart decided to move away from even providing a single blogger account level license.  I’ve loved working with MT over the years, but that change is enough to make me jump ship, so I started looking for alternatives.  WordPress was an obvious choice.  The process I followed to convert my site content is as follows:

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