Even though I've only been using blogging tools to post Web logs for the last six months, I'd spent the better part of the last decade hand-coding journal entries and posting them on my original personal website. Today, though, it occurred to me that I could use the "Wayback Machine" at the Internet Archive to search their archive for posts I'd made to my website over the years and consolidate them into my current blog.
So now I'm sorting through dozens of dusty webpages in search of ancient journal entries, back from the days when a blog meant, well, basically nothing. What does this mean in practical terms? It means that you'll now be able to go to my blog's homepage and find my journal entries going back to the mid-1990s. Simply go to my blog homepage and skim down the left column until you find the collection of monthly blog archives. Rather than going back only to September 2003 (when I started using my first blogging tool, Blogger), you'll now be able to go back many years before that, all the way back to the announcement of my EdWeb site going live in October 1994. These old journal entries cover everything from digital divide-related grant programs I worked on at the Corporation to Public Broadcasting in the 1990s to trips around the world I took with Susanne well before the two of us got married.
So when you get a chance, check out these archival entries and take a walk down memory lane... -ac
Posted by acarvin at February 22, 2004 01:50 PM | TrackBackAndy, you may find that Mailbucket is now more responsive: I've optimised the database (which is nearly at 200,000 messages) and improved the RSS generation, so that feeds should be updated within seconds of email delivery.
I hope this helps - let me know if you have any more problems.
Tom
Posted by: Tom Dyson at March 9, 2004 07:09 AM