Ashes

Way Back Machine...

26 May 2013, 12:27PM

Wow, so I'm humbled. I stumbled across the Perihelion 1.0 on the Way Back Machine. Its a great idea. It had (mostly) a copy of every diary entry I did. So after reading a few I decided I wanted them back so I wrote a small program to scrape them off the WBM. It sounds easy, but my HTML back then was shocking. Also I introduced new features as we went along such as the ability to add comments. Also there appears to be about 6 months missing on the WBM.

Anyway, a few problems, overcome. I scraped 844 entries (there is probably around 1000), totally over 3MB of characters. Shit, I wrote a lot. None of this 140 character Twitter nonsense. Or maybe this 140 character limit is due to people like me, originally writing too much.

So it makes for an interesting read. A lot went on. I have changed a lot. Its inspiring, embarrassing, interesting. So many spelling mistakes and poorly written words. But I believe it achieved its goal. I have a record, few people do. There is stuff there forgotten, that can be brought back to life. Never forget, never regret...

Now on to new things...

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