Added convertier of dump into static pages

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@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ directly, or you may need to open a Terminal/Command Prompt window to run it.
 Either way, it will prompt you for your Livejournal username and password,
 then download all your journal entries, comments, and userpics.
 
 Either way, it will prompt you for your Livejournal username and password,
 then download all your journal entries, comments, and userpics.
 

+You may optionally download entries from a different journal (a community)
+where you are a member. If you are a community maintainer, you can also
+download comments from the community.
+

 If you want to save your username and password so you don't have to type
 it every time you run ljdump, you can save it in the configuration file.
 
 If you want to save your username and password so you don't have to type
 it every time you run ljdump, you can save it in the configuration file.
 


@@ -26,8 +30,32 @@ The configuration settings are:
   password - The account password. This password is never sent in the
              clear; the livejournal "challenge" password mechanism is used.
 
   password - The account password. This password is never sent in the
              clear; the livejournal "challenge" password mechanism is used.
 

+  journal - Optional: The journal to download entries from. If this is
+            not specified, the "username" journal is downloaded. If this
+            is specified, then only the named journals will be downloaded
+            (this element may be specified more than once to download
+            multiple journals).
+

 This program may be run as often as needed to bring the backup copy up
 to date. Both new and updated items are downloaded.
 
 The community http://ljdump.livejournal.com has been set up for questions
 or comments.
 This program may be run as often as needed to bring the backup copy up
 to date. Both new and updated items are downloaded.
 
 The community http://ljdump.livejournal.com has been set up for questions
 or comments.

+
+-----
+
+convertdump - convert ljdump format to wordpress importer format
+Contributed by Sean M. Graham (www.sean-graham.com) and others
+
+This will convert a pydump archive into something compatible with the
+WordPress LiveJournal importer.  This is the same format used by the Windows
+ljArchive exporter.
+
+Arguments:
+    -u  --user      username of archive to process [required]
+    -l  --limit     limit the number of entries in each xml file (default 250)
+    -i  --insecure  include private and protected entries in the output
+    -h  --help      show this help page
+
+Example:
+    ./convertdump.py --user stevemartin --limit 200 --insecure