Archival Content, You Want It?
Posted by Chief Oddball in the morning on March 23rd, 2007Over the last couple days, whilst unable to sleep at one in the morning, I’ve been absently traveling back through the old “Private Oddball” archives from 1994 and onward. “Private Oddball” is the throwaway name I gave to the blog I keep privately on my local machine, which serves as a personal journal of sorts. Obviously, blogs and websites weren’t around in 1994 when I started writing — the whole thing was a collection of Word documents until a few years ago. But as I looked back through the archives, I realized there was a one-year gap. Nothing at all was written during 2002.
It’s been long enough now since 2002 that I started to wonder, what happened during that year? I can’t even recall. That’s when I remembered that 2002 was the year I started keeping my first regular “blog” on the live World Wide Web, originally hosted under a different domain from this one. (In fact, one of that old blog’s designs was the basis of this site’s “Plum Crazy” color scheme.) If I looked back at that content, I reasoned, I’d get a glimpse of what went on in that missing year. But why limit the audience to myself?
So, I’m posing this question of my readership: Anybody want to see the “lost content” from 2002-2003? If so, I can slipstream it into my database here, and true harmony shall be restored. Feel free to post comments with your thoughts, favorite recipes or whatever.
I believe it goes without saying that I’d get a kick reading some of that old stuff.
I might suggest not putting it all online, though, since I seem to recall an incident or two that might be best left out of public consumption.
I’m a sucker for archival material…so bring it on
Very good, when I get home I shall look at adding this stuff in! Unfortunately I didn’t bring that particular slice of my “Websites” directory with me on this trip, or I’d be working on it this weekend.
Pooch — yep, I’m ahead of you there; each entry is gonna be scrutinized for anything “best left to history” and excluded if appropriate. I don’t think I’m going to be importing any comments either (I think I’d have to create them all by hand if I wanted them), so that solves one problem in particular <clears throat>. In short, I’ll be watchful of what I put up here.