Ye olde Blogger blog has returned
I explained in a couple of recent posts (see this and this) that my original Blogger blog was going haywire and would not display properly. Not only that, but when I signed in, I couldn’t see the old posts at what’s known as the back end, and was therefore unable to edit or change anything.
Well, I’m happy to say that the problem has been fixed. For now, anyway.
Thanks for all the suggestions. But the winner turned out to be (drum roll, please) this one from commenter “brdavis9.” He provided the key. But I still had to find the lock myself by figuring out how to get to the more complete back end. I had one of those “aha!” moments and managed to get in there, and then I followed his instructions. I had to change more than that one setting to make the comments show up properly, but I think it’s done, or at least done well enough.
Take a look for yourself. I used the “http://” URL there in order to show that, when clicked on, it now converts automatically to “https://” and displays the blog more or less intact. Even going to the archives works, and the comments are there as well – for the most part, that is, but for certain random posts they are missing.
As my blogger site is also ancient, I am saving this in case I encounter the same problem someday.
Tangentially, no one is ever going to go back and read all 6500 posts of mine, so I read the stats and recorded the 100 most visited and have been reposting them in reverse order the last few months. I’m just hitting the To 20 now. “Most-visited” isn’t necessarily “best,” but I have been pleased at how much accord there was in my mind. I’ve only had two Instalanches, I know you have had many more, and that may skew your numbers, causing you to have to exercise editorial discretion about that. But it has been a fun exercise and I recommend it to you. It has caused me further pondering about why some things caught while others (which I thought much better or more controversial) have not. I think your readers might find it amusing/informative as well.
Congrats!
Wonderful news, Neo! I’m very glad not just for you but for all of us, your faithful readers.
To you, Assistant V.A., and anyone else who conducts or has conducted a weblog — IMO even postings and comments from long ago can be quite valuable even if they didn’t attract much attention at the time. (But I certainly do recognize the time it must take to resurrect old postings and comments, especially if one has a life outside of curating one’s weblog! I’m just talking about the value to some of us. Not intended to try to saddle anyone with more work he hasn’t time for.) –The exceptions are the cases where flaming tends to be the order of the day: Far too many of those.
Their value can lie in the history they contain, or in their points of view and also in the very variety thereof, on the philosophical or practical problems we face, in the windows on what were the passions of their time … even in their entertainment value. Some hilarious stuff shows up sometimes. And then even broken links can sometimes lead us into interesting, even important, byways.
Have a read through the archives at Samizdata.net … all there since the very beginning, in Nov. 2001. (Give your housemate instructions that you are to be brought meals on a try, and are not to be disturbed until the 2024 elections.) Read our hostess’s archives. See this from Chicago Boyz:
https://chicagoboyz.net/how-to-read-this-blog
And more….
Julie – and A.V.I —
I have found it very entertaining, and sometimes quite enlightening, to read old posts from some of my favorite writers and the commentary; some warnings (not quite prophecies) have been justified, and some viewpoints have changed as the situation warrants.
Commenters at Neo and ChicagoBoyz’n’Girlz overlap quite a bit, perhaps more so than for other blogs, and the tone of the conversations is very high, which is unusual on the Webz.
The post-bumping at A.V.I’s place was worth the effort IMO, although this seems to be a new one:
http://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2019/10/whacks.html
Lizzie Warren with a tax
Gave your income forty whacks.
When she saw you try to run
Gave your spouses forty-one.
Don’t miss this one!
http://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2007/12/hobbits-in-kentucky.html
And yes it does. Neo, the previous two comments I put in were snagged by the spam filter. Please take one out if you can… for historical reasons.
Tangentially, no one is ever going to go back and read all 6500 posts of mine, so I read the stats and recorded the 100 most visited and have been reposting them in reverse order the last few months.
Oh, I wouldn’t be so sure about that. A former President of the Prometheus Society garners a substantial amount of interest amongst certain circles. This isn’t me leaking a secret either, as you had that on your blogspot profile for some time until the Wayback machine recorded it.