Add posts from 2005-2007 site

[coyotebush]

I cobbled together this:

require 'mysql2'
require 'reverse_markdown'

client = Mysql2::Client.new(:host => "localhost", :username => "root",
                            :database => "cplug")
client.query("select * from news").each do |row|
  title = row["name"]
  slug = title.downcase.gsub(/\W+/, ' ').strip.tr(' ', '-')
  filename = "_posts/#{row["date"]}-#{slug}.md"
  body = ReverseMarkdown.convert row["description"]
  body.gsub! /\r\n?/, "\n"
  File.open(filename, "w") do |file|
    file.write <<-END.gsub(/^ {6}/, '')
      ---
      title: #{title}
      layout: post
      ---
      #{body}
    END
  end
end

There are some broken links (I think we have copies of some, but not all, of the PDFs and other files from this site) and formatting, but mostly it looks reasonable.

Fixes #14

[icco]

If we still have the same old box, I verified all links worked in like 2010, so the files should be on disk and could be committed here. If not, internet archive?

[coyotebush]

I have a local copy of the files that coexisted with Wordpress, and in #6 I committed those that were actually referenced in the Wordpress site. There are more, and it looks like the wayback machine can help with the gaps.

The wayback machine also reveals, unfortunately, that a bunch of previous posts were deleted from the database in early 2006. Not sure whether it's worth extracting those as well.

[icco]

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