I decided to spend the day making a backup file of this here blog thingy™. That’s 14 MB of just text – not even counting the pictures, which should be backed up separately (and which I still need to work on, because there’s no quick extract of those files, except in the case of the newer ones where I proactively adopted a more back-up-able storage method).
That’s what I get for 13 years of blogging.
Then, just for the hell of it, since I happen to have a webserver (apache) and appropriate database (MySQL) running on my desktop at the moment, I hacked together a wordpress instance and “published” a clone of my blog on my desktop, just to prove I still have a few technical skills. It took me about 3 hours to get a passable instance (sans local pictures) up and running. Anyway, I can say that as long as I keep my backups up-to-date, my blog is fully recoverable even if my bloghosting company meets a bad end for whatever reason. Here’s a screenshot of the CAVEATDVMPTRVCK doppelgänger I slapped together:
What I’m listening to right now.
Younger Brother, “Train.”
Lyrics.
The world flashing past
So many others moving so fast
I feel my heart slow
As we go under I don’t bow down
Nothing left undecided
Upon steel on steel
Through these cuts in me I’ve
No question who was here first
Many dreams many lifetimes
Any of which could be me
Accept that I’m the one unable to move upon this machine
Upon this machine
On a caravan in motion
Alone in crowds just like me
I fell between the moments
I fell between the ideas
Cuz when it runs around the windows
Nothing here is still
All the patterns colliding
Through these villages and hills
So many dreams so many lifetimes
Any of which could be me
Accept that I’m the one unable to move upon this machine
There’s no one else, no one else, no one else, no one else
There’s no one else, no one else, no one else, no one else
There’s no one else, no one else, no one else, no one can help me now
Help me I’m stuck in this moving thing
Nothing is what it seems
No getting off this machine
[daily log: walking, a little]