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March 06, 2003

Amazing...

It's amazing what you can pull out of the void when you've been properly doing tape backups of a website.

I forgot that I had restored my old-old-old website from tape to my old server (which sat in Stephen's apartment in the US when I moved to Germany). I completely forgot about restoring it, and then didn't even notice that I had copied all the data to my new server here in Germany. The data is a journal which goes back to August 1999 in HTML format, and then a wordperfect document which I had always intended to post in HTML, which goes back to 1996 (although, IIRC, in 1998 I didn't keep any records of my existence). Rereading it, it's all drivelly sort of, "what I did today," crap, unfortunately much less interesting and much more petty than the current blog.

Still, should I post all this crap up for the world to see? I suppose I could write some perl scripts to make this movable-type importable. If so, does anyone have a copy of wordperfect that I can borrow? :).

Posted by reid at March 6, 2003 01:32 AM | TrackBack

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If you send me the wordperfect file I bet I can open in it MS Word on the ibook. As for importing the old journal entries the MT format is pretty simple. Here is my first MT entry ever.

AUTHOR: dfc
TITLE: Finally did it...
STATUS: Publish
ALLOW COMMENTS: 1
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ALLOW PINGS: 1
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DATE: 07/30/2002 01:27:01 AM
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I finally got around to doing a blog. You can thank PPA 755 for providing me with the need to find an enormous waste of time in order to procrastinate. I am acting as the Honorable Senator
Joe Lieberman from the great state of Connecticut. I would tell you more about it but I don't really like talking about it that much. Unless you are in a PAC and have money or constituency cards for me and then I would be glad to talk to you
about anything. This site runs MovableType and I have trackback enabled if you are so inclined. I also set up a blog for
my roommate Dave Grandinetti. Chances are he will update his site as often
as he does dishes, which as any of the Ph.D. students studying the fungi kingdoms in are kitchen know is not that often.
My dear friend Reid also has a blog and his gets updated very often.
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Posted by: dfc on March 6, 2003 11:09 AM