The folks at Blogger recently announced that they would be deprecating their publish via FTP service, because less than one percent of active blogs were using it, but it was consuming far more than that fraction of their engineering resources. I was using that service, so I was mildly disappointed, but I understood their position.
In seemingly unrelated news, Blogger stopped displaying in its editor any posts beyond the most recent 5000 as of sometime last year. This is a known issue, and a bit of a hassle — the kind of thing you’d like to get away from by migrating away from Blogger to, say, WordPress.
But it turns out that Blogger doesn’t simply refuse to display older posts in its editor; it won’t export them either. So here I am with a shiny new WordPress blog that’s missing half of my collective œuvre.
Addendum: For those who would like to explore the old archives before I find I clever hack to get them out of Blogger and into WordPress, voilà:
- January 2003
- February 2003
- March 2003
- April 2003
- May 2003
- June 2003
- July 2003
- August 2003
- September 2003
- October 2003
- November 2003
- December 2003
- January 2004
- February 2004
- March 2004
- April 2004
- May 2004
- June 2004
- July 2004
- August 2004
- September 2004
- October 2004
- November 2004
- December 2004
- January 2005
- February 2005
- March 2005
- April 2005
- May 2005
- June 2005
- July 2005
- August 2005
- September 2005
- October 2005
- November 2005
- December 2005
- January 2006
- February 2006
- March 2006
- April 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- July 2006
- August 2006
But you allow comments now! I’m shocked.
Boy, I miss your archives. I just found your site not long ago, and hadn’t looked through the old files yet. Bummer for me.
Zack, we’ll see how long the comments can run with minimal adult supervision. They may not last forever.
Becky, I posted links to all my old archives. Enjoy!