After a wee bit of pain, that’s my blog moved from http://skotl.blogspot.com to WordPress.
The good news is that the import functionality worked flawlessly, bringing the blogs, categories and comments, and linking all to each other seamlessly.
My pain was that I wanted to change the default naming of the posts; in WordPress-speak, I wanted to “prettify” the URLs.
Didnae work… 
no matter what I did, I kept getting HTTP 404 when clicking on the post entries.
And then, duh, I followed the instructions… Pretty URLs require mod_rewrite to be enabled on Apache. I must admit, when I googled mod_rewrite / ubuntu, most of the responses suggest it’s enabled by default; it’s not!
I enabled it, restarted Apache, and all was good! (the following are Ubuntu specific);
sudo a2enmod rewrite sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
And now, everything in the garden is rosey. Bye bye Blogger, hello WordPress 