A little housekeeping to start the week with. Regular readers of this site have mentioned that many of the past blog entries are MIA. Technically, there’s nothing wrong. Earlier this year I made a few changes to the structure and content of the site, migrating the blog from Blogger to the new architecture I’d built up using WordPress.
Unfortunately, there’s nearly ten years and 2,000 entries back there and I haven’t yet found a automated way to bring them all into WordPress. And the native tools for importing/exporting just aren’t designed for such a scale.
Which leaves me, every week or so, taking a couple of hours to manually move posts over one by one. So far I’ve dialed us back to my birthday in 2006. But, as the archive links on the left will show you, the first post was in January of 2001. That’s a lot of narcissism to parse, my friends.
It’s yucky work, but it has given me the opportunity to filter past posts a bit and dust off the ones that need a bit of help. I’m not changing things or editing — I’d like to finish it someday, after all — but I am making little discoveries here and there along the lines of “Oh, yes. I’d forgotten about that. Interesting.”
It’s especially interesting to read the ramp up to “Assam & Darjeeling” — little hints here and there, little discoveries I made — and it’s nice to have that history there.
Eventually, the rest of this blog will be back in the archives again. All I need is six or seven uninterrupted days, four interns, and unlimited tea.
Until then, I’ll keep moving forward. I like it when people I enjoy blog about their work (case in point, Andrew Bird), so I’ll continue to do the same as long as it seems interesting.
Speaking of which, the powers that be operating the Patchwork Earth site were kind enough to ask me to step in as a guest blogger last week. My contribution, for what it’s worth, is about comic books and their influence on my writing and you can read it here.