I started this blog decades ago. (Yep, it’s been decades now.) But for a good long time I left it dormant, ’cause I was busy with other things. I did most of my blogging on The Christ Almighty Blog; I still do. Didn’t want this blog distracting from that!
But every once in a while I wanted to dig through old things I’ve written, and since I took everything down from here, I hopped on Internet Archive, which has backed up all those years of blogging. Even when I kinda didn’t want them to. I wanted to retract or edit or update things; one of the great things about blogging is it’s not like print, and you can do that! But Internet Archive wants to archive everything, and did. Oh well.
Anyway this past week Internet Archive was attacked by hackers, and most of the site has been offline. Not all of it; its Wayback Machine, with all those archived webpages, including my old blogs, are still around. Still, it’s just a reminder of how ephemeral web content can be. All it takes is one server going down… and its backup, and its other backup, and maybe a few other redundant backups. Or the company which is hosting the backups.
So I decided to start putting it back. Which is gonna take me a while. But in the very little spare time I have, why not.