Overcoming Inertia and Finding the Lost

I finally got around to upgrading my website publishing platform (btw, I use WordPress). I’ve been wanting to do that for two years already, but like many things (i.e. the GMAT), I just never got around to it. I think the upgrade fixed a few glitches that I’ve had problems with in the past, so I’m glad that I finally just sat down and took care of it. Not that the upgrading took that much time or effort (WordPress makes it ridiculously easy for users), it was really just a matter of overcoming inertia.  Seems like the same applies for a lot of things on my To Do list. *sigh*

Also related to websites, I’ve rediscovered my old blogs. Yay.

When I first began creating my personal websites, I used the GeoCities free hosting service provided by Yahoo. In 2009, Yahoo decided to terminate the service and delete all files from its servers. For some reason, I never backed up my files. My guess is that I either wasn’t aware that GeoCities was being shut down, forgot about it, or thought I had backup copies (turns out I didn’t). When I finally realized that GeoCities was gone, it was too late…all the content on my former website was gone. That made me sad. It wasn’t just a website; it contained an archive of my thoughts throughout college, sometimes marking significant events in my life. And I thought I had lost those pages forever.

As a last ditch effort, I began googling key words related to my old website in the hopes that I could find some archives of those pages somewhere on the web. The situation seemed bleak, but on the 3rd page of my Google search, four links from the bottom, I finally found something. It turns out there’s a project with the goal of restoring as much of the former GeoCities pages as possible. The site is Reocities.com, and in it, I found most of my old website intact. Of course, there’s still a few files missing here and there, but at least I now have all my blog entries again. I was ecstatic.

I’ve downloaded all the files that had been restored, and eventually plan on uploading them to my current web-hosting service provider.