Yes, I just wrote that to sound old and curmudgeonly, thanks!

Thank you for continuing to provide technical guidance to those of us to lazy to invent these things for ourselves.

Having to state that you started a website in 1995 just sounds, I don’t know, like having to tell people you came over in the Mayflower or something. You of all people shouldn’t have to try so hard.

Art Jones: Fair assertion, but I wrote in response to a new reader who began blogging recently and didn’t understand why my site failed to offer the same features her site offers. There were two possible answers:

1. I started blogging recently and don’t understand how my blogging software works.
2. I started blogging years before there was blogging software.

#2 was the correct answer, so I stated it.

I could have spent more time figuring out how to import all my entries in one fell swoop. (The RSS method sounds interesting — more details?) I ended up just using brute force: I copied and pasted each entry, manually edited each timestamp, and added a title to each entry (all previously untitled). It was a kind of fun, and a kind of weird trip through the recent past.

Of course, this is not a method I recommend for Jeffrey, since he’s written far more than the mere 200 posts I had managed from 2001 to 2007.

Even though I worked for an Internet-based company that relied on search queries for most of their business, I thought no one read my site but a handful of people who knew the URL.

Since then I’ve met some really cool people through the www. This whole being public online thing doesn’t freak me out as much anymore. I kind of like it.

{and for anyone who has ’subprime’ intelligence … that was very much sarcasm! Because, you know, some people … }

I’m assuming the search you have, only covers your entries since you started using Wordpress, right?

@Devon: No, it’s Atomz Search and covers everything public on my server. I’m not using WordPress’s built-in search. But now I understand where you were coming from! Thanks for your helpfulness!

Sorry to piss you off.

@Josh: Sorry so grumpy. Your comment began with the two-word paragraph, “Bad Answer.” Unfortunately, this terse introduction made your entire comment come across as aggressively know-it-all and condescending. I’m sure that you did not intend to sound that way, but that was the effect your word choice created. It even made “Have a nice day” sound sarcastic. Again, I sense now that you did not mean to come across that way. Sorry for any tonal misunderstanding.

By the way, it is interesting that you started with such a bold color gamma, something like orange / violet on black as far as I can remember, then gradually soften it and now it’s a totally opposite low-contrast pastel gamma. Where next?

@Vitaly: Bold and high contrast, I’m thinking. But not lurid! No yellow on purple, etc.

This (archiving) has been all well documented on the net over the years and there’s even plugins too. Just go to Google and type in archiving my blog + plugins.

You would think some people think Jeffrey’s new to this and doesn’t know what to think… for himself.

By the way, it is interesting that you started with such a bold color gamma, something like orange / violet on black as far as I can remember, then gradually soften it and now it’s a totally opposite low-contrast pastel gamma. Where next? :)

It took several weeks, working on it part time, but at least they’re all there and archived. I imagine you’d have a much bigger job here though :)