Blog•Meet: Hey, it’s tomorrow!

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You have been warned!

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Blog•Meet: June is running out...

...and Shermlock wants us to pick a date and venue...

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Service resuming shortly...

The silence around here can be best attributed to a semi-expected project deathmarch followed by a planned trip out of town.  More substantial posts will follow, as I get the laundry done and clean the stack of stuff off my desk.

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May Blog•Meet - Flippy Kitty edition

Art HT:  Roberta X.

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Third Anniversary Indy BlogMeet - May 16th

Most likely at Brugge, but add your thoughts to the discussion.
Seems amazing that we’ve been doing these for a full two.years now.

UPDATE (100507 16:15):

I blame Alzheimer’s.  Either that or fencepost error.


Elsewhere, related:

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April Blogmeet is Today, Doo-dah!

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Next Indy BlogMeet - Sunday, March 21

The usual time at the usual place. CU?

(Art and arrangements courtesy of the lovely and talented Roberta X.)

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The Adventure of the Disappearing Archives

Blogspot bloggers - especially those using “classic” templates - will want to be aware of this:

Half of my blog has vanished.

No, really, completely vanished.
Unreadable.  Un-findable.  Invisble.  Gone.

You probably haven’t noticed, because the only bit of the blog you read is fine.  There’s been no effect on my front page, on my most recent posts, the ones you actually read.  But try to delve into my archives and you’ll discover that they’re not all there.  I have 90 monthly archive pages, each of which used to show a complete list of posts published in that month.  Now each stops short, cutting off everything after the middle of the month, with no way to access the remainder.  Half of everything I've written over the last 7½ years has disappeared.  As you might imagine, I’m not best pleased...

The good news is that it turns out the posts in question are not “Gone,” but are presently “Unreadable. Un-findable. Invisible.” thanks to a poorly thought-out (my opinion) “Auto-Pagination” feature rolled out a couple of weeks ago with no prior notice by Google. How much you now see has to do with not the number of posts but their size, along with how many images (even if not hosted on Google’s servers) they include. Needless to say there are a lot of angry comments in Blogger’s help forum, along with the sort of patronizing responses (often non-solutions: “Recode all your posts” - right!) from admins which we’ve encountered before.

So check your archive pages, and always remember:

This mess brings home how fragile the world of online content is.  All it takes is one hosting decision, one hard-drive failure or one corporate takeover, and everything you thought you owned can disappear.  It’s a sobering thought that if I’d died three months ago, my entire online legacy would now be half a blog (thank you Blogger) with no comments (thank you.JS-Kit).  We’re all only one upgrade away from obsolescence.

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Sidebar additions/Sunday’s Blog•Meet

Presenting, in alphabetical order, the new sidebar additions thanks to Sunday’s Blog•Meet:

Assorted Meanderings, “Politics. Engineering. Science.”, conducted by Jack.  (Would that possibly be “MAD” science?  Guess we’ll find out!)

Pennsylvania Rifles is home of “PA State Cop,” who just got started blogging, but has a host of stories. (Now all  we’ve gotta do is convince him to start writing ’em all up!)

Both gentlemen are welcome additions to the circle, which this time around also included Joanna (“Glad I didn’t order a large!”) Roberta (pictures), Tam, Nathan (fresh from snowy Alexandria), Caleb (fresh from sunny California), Shermlock, Hagbard (hey, I want to know how you get comments where there’s no post), Shootin’ Buddy, and me.  Tchopstix turned out to be all that was promised (and they have Kirin on draft!).  Only one Wayne this time, tho...

The next meeting appears to be coalescing toward March 21 (Indy 1500 weekend).  Discussion underway at Roberta’s place.

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February Blog•Meet - Sunday the 21st

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