I'm currently in the process of relaunching my blog. This requires me
to convert all my blog posts -- manually. It's necessary because I was
using a custom markup language all the time (9 years). Now, I'm
converting to Markdown and I try to use as little markup as possible.
Keep it simple.
I chose Markdown because it can produce nice HTML and it's nicely
readable in its raw form.
The new blog is also going to be multilingual. English and German. I
can't translate all the old posts, that's just too much work. But I
can write new blog postings in both languages.
All of this was triggered by an e-mail of an asian user. He asked if I
can provide an English feed. (Not exactly an English feed, but a feed
that uses Google Translate.) He was not the first one to be interested
in an English version of my blog ... So it's about time.