I’ve recovered all the posts from my original Blogger site known as “Digital Hobo” for the dates of September 17, 2002, to October 2, 2002. I was fortunate to find I had a backup in a Zip file on a CD I burned sometime in 2003. I copied and pasted them all here so now you can view them in their fully restored glory.
Listen to Chip and relive the memories:
Here’s my first blog post ever.
From the OLD, OLD, OOOOOLD archives, here are some of my favorites. Please share your favorite memories in honor of my sometime-around-now 5th anniversary of blogging. (Note: The posts chosen below represent recovered posts from October 2002 through the end of 2004.)
As a brief update on the situation with the archives, I’m still missing a lot of old posts and there’s about six months from January 2005 through June 2005 that I probably won’t be able to recover due to an error in my backup of those months. But please enjoy the ones that have come back! Also, I’ve done my best to edit the archives to remove any full names (other than maybe Double-J and Luebbe and a couple references to Jake). If you want your name further hidden or expunged from any specific post, let me know.
I’ve tweaked the site a bit today. The header menu has been updated w/ the inclusion of a new Photo Gallery which grabs all of my photo sets from Flickr and makes them all nice and friendly to view. Also, I’ve updated The Quotes to be more built-in and use the updated look&feel of the site.
You’ll also see a new section called Pownce in the sidebar. It’s a website with functionality similar to the status capability on Facebook (e.g. “C. is angry with the Lords of the Power Station.”) and also similar to Twitter. It’s got some other abilities such as sharing links and files. Anyway, there’s already a Pownce Facebook plugin and a Pownce Wordpress plugin so I’m playing around with it a bit. My profile is here and I’ve got one invite left for the site if anybody wants it.
Update: Well, you may notice that the archives go back quite a bit further now. All the way back until October 2002 when I first started blogging. Yup, I’ve been working all day on importing the old blogs and posts into here. I’ve been fixing some of it to work w/ the right formatting, correcting various internal links, and more. It’s still a bit in process as I move some of the posts to the correct categories and finish up the formatting.
Also, please keep in mind that I’m still missing a period of time from late 2004 thru mid 2005 which I haven’t been able to import yet. But this is a lot more complete than it was!