11 October 2005
I had an idea to slowly work on getting the archives back in action, but it's just overwhelming. I think it's great that a person can plug their old entries in MT, but it seems like quite the task -- much more work than I'm prepared to undertake. If anybody has any tips or tricks for the process, I'd be glad to hear them. As I understand it, one has to go through each entry and weed out the important bits and format it anew. Bah.
I started trying to hammer the old Greymatter posts into something resembling archives, and I've got one month done (linked on the Archives page, along with the first three months of twelve22 -- I used to be in university!). Several things are taking the wind out of my sails.
1) I want to redesign the site sometime in the next month or two, which would mean pulling out the important bits from each entry and plugging them into new HTML (I'm not so CSS reliant that I can change the design without changing the HTML, after all). If I'm going to do that, I might as well enter them into MT.
2) I don't have one big folder for the images I've uploaded to twelve22 over the months. They usually go in a folder related to the subject matter -- if I'm lucky. I could easily spend hours trying to track down all the photos linked to on twelve22, and some won't even exist on this computer or my laptop. On my parents' computer? Gone forever? Nobody knows.
3) Thingsivemade.com apparently expired in the last month (which I would have noticed if my old hosting company hadn't given me the boot), and some group swooped up and bought it. I can only imagine there are 'companies' which get a list of domains which have expired that day -- companies which then buy up the domains in the hope that the 'rightful owner' will come along and pay them a million quid to buy it back. So not only will I have to abandon the name 'Things I've Made,' but I have to go through every post to look for images linked to that domain.
4) People suck.
And that's about that. Time to find some bunnies or chocolate to cheer me up.
Poor Anna. You shouldn't be so hard on people. They can be useful. At least you don't have to try and recover your files from a computer buried under three feet of muck or from inside the ruins of an apartment building like most of the world does these days. Remember how we used to take your frown and turn it upside down? Life's never so bad that it can't get worse. That's the thought that keeps me smiling!
posted by .d at October 11, 2005 06:53 PM
:-( I'm sorry, Anna. I think the situation warrants a twofer: find a chocolate bunny.
posted by Laura at October 11, 2005 09:34 PM
This was a tricky one. I tried offering to fix it (i.e. the guy thing) *and* I tried the phrase 'buck up, little pony'. No luck with either. Where's a chocolate rabbit when you need it?
Incidentally, Anna's Mom gave me a chocolate rabbit the Easter before last and it was so big and solid I couldn't bite it. In the end, I melted it down and made those rice krispie things. Yum.
posted by Rob at October 12, 2005 06:01 AM
The Easter before last?!?! Seems like just yesterday. But then again Rob, it seems like you have always been around. Thanks for trying to help Poor Little. Dear Little Pony, I use a computer all day long so if you can tell me what HTML and CSS and MT stand for I might be able to help you out with the computer problem. I think I still have some greymatter left.........
posted by momma at October 12, 2005 10:09 PM
If I'd have read this post before this morning, I wouldn't have asked you whether you'd like to move the company website, including greymatter, to a new hosting company today, seeing as our hosters are pants an' all. Now I understand the sad, so sad look and the brave but pitiful sigh. I will never ask such a cruel question again.
posted by mermaid princess at October 13, 2005 12:17 PM