New blog
Okay, I’ve finally buckled down and done it. Started a formal blog, using reall blogging software.
I have had two blog-like sites in the past, both manually constructed and maintained. The first, from 1999-2000, was called “An Opinion About Everything” — so-named because someone in a mailing list flamewar once accused me of having an opinion about everything, as though that were a bad thing. The second, from 2003-2006, was called “Bouncing Off the Walls” — it was at the site attached to my personal e-mail address, “rubberize”.
This blogging software allows me to backdate posts — perhaps controversial, but less so than with stock options — which I am using to bring in my posts from those other two pseudo-blogs and repost them here, in chronological order, while still being able to post new items as well. (Some of the original posts themselves got updated at some point, so they are posted under their last update date, with an indication of the original post date as well.)
Despite backdating the entries to put them in the right context, I am not going to rewrite the entries. What I originally wrote and posted for all the world to see (if they happened to trip over my site) should still be something I’m happy to have people read today. (I had better be okay with it, since the web never forgets. Anything I ever posted is archived somewhere.) There are exceptions to that, though: (1) if I spot a typo or puncutation error or HTML coding gaffe, I will fix it; (2) if I had links to websites and those links are no longer valid, I will fix the links or remove them; and (3) if a removed link means that an entire paragraph no longer has valid content, I will remove the paragraph.
Enjoy, and please add comments where you like.
(Oh yeah, and comments: a few of the original posts had manually inserted comments added to them. I’ll do something like that here, when I get to those posts.)
Update on July 22, 2007…
I’ve now completed bringing over the posts from “An Opinion About Everything”. The other blog will take a lot longer to port across.
Update on July 29, 2007…
As I’m starting to move through the old blog post, I see some items that are notes about pages I added to the other website, or “Hey, this is my 100th entry!” posts, which don’t have any content worth preserving. I’ve decided to no bring those across into this blog.
I have had two blog-like sites in the past, both manually constructed and maintained. The first, from 1999-2000, was called “An Opinion About Everything” — so-named because someone in a mailing list flamewar once accused me of having an opinion about everything, as though that were a bad thing. The second, from 2003-2006, was called “Bouncing Off the Walls” — it was at the site attached to my personal e-mail address, “rubberize”.
This blogging software allows me to backdate posts — perhaps controversial, but less so than with stock options — which I am using to bring in my posts from those other two pseudo-blogs and repost them here, in chronological order, while still being able to post new items as well. (Some of the original posts themselves got updated at some point, so they are posted under their last update date, with an indication of the original post date as well.)
Despite backdating the entries to put them in the right context, I am not going to rewrite the entries. What I originally wrote and posted for all the world to see (if they happened to trip over my site) should still be something I’m happy to have people read today. (I had better be okay with it, since the web never forgets. Anything I ever posted is archived somewhere.) There are exceptions to that, though: (1) if I spot a typo or puncutation error or HTML coding gaffe, I will fix it; (2) if I had links to websites and those links are no longer valid, I will fix the links or remove them; and (3) if a removed link means that an entire paragraph no longer has valid content, I will remove the paragraph.
Enjoy, and please add comments where you like.
(Oh yeah, and comments: a few of the original posts had manually inserted comments added to them. I’ll do something like that here, when I get to those posts.)
Update on July 22, 2007…
I’ve now completed bringing over the posts from “An Opinion About Everything”. The other blog will take a lot longer to port across.
Update on July 29, 2007…
As I’m starting to move through the old blog post, I see some items that are notes about pages I added to the other website, or “Hey, this is my 100th entry!” posts, which don’t have any content worth preserving. I’ve decided to no bring those across into this blog.
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