11:56 PM - On just what in the hell is going on here...
I suppose you want an explanation... I mean, you must, right? Well I'll try... I'm the sort of person who keeps EVERYTHING. Photos, artwork, notes, doodles, tickets, old student ID cards, stuff I find on the street, emails from people I know I'll never talk to again, and of course, every piece of junk I've ever put on the internet. What this behavior led to was the subinev.com server becoming a huge flaming pile of sloppy internet residue over the years. So I guess just because I keep everything doesn't mean I keep it orderly. While to some it may have looked like I had only been doing this since early 2002, it actually went to a few years before that, but I never got around to properly formatting or importing or whatever older archives of the various incarnations of this blog. With the recent onslaught of those evil comment spammers (aka soulless bastards who I really do wish would die, and I mean that very seriously, you with your pathetic excuses for marketing strategies), the barrage of thousands of comments across hundreds of entries on here just became too much for my poor little site to handle, and it crumbled under the pressure. I guess I always knew it would come to this, as there's really no way you can keep something that is a complete mess going forever before it falls apart. So that brings us to now. I'm starting fresh. While apparently all my past entries do still exist, Movable Type doesn't seem to want to recognize this fact, so I'm throwing in the towel for now, and starting with a clean slate (and thus, a clean site, hardy har friggin har). On the plus side, this does give me a chance to get to things that I've been thinking about for a while now - some of which may or may not include a full scale site (as opposed to the stripped-down sorry excuse that stood here for so long), new projects like a regular podcast, photo projects, some sort of 'art' (real art, fools, painting and collage stuff as well as videos, I mean), and whatever else I come up with. Not sure yet if I'll go back to the old way of having a separate wordlog and photoblog yet, but we'll see. Hopefully some of you will stick around (if this bland template didn't send you running already) to see just what happens to subinev.com in 2005.
For the curious out there (seeing as how I know there are at least a few people who take some obcene pleasure in scouring my archives on a fairly regular basis), I should let you know that I believe I will be able to retrieve the old worldlog entries and import them back into the blog, although the photos are a different story altogether. What I know about those is that IF they come back, they might retain their titles and captions, but as far as I know all the comments are dead and gone. Sorry.
They do say you're supposed to start a new year clean... well, here goes. Happy New Year, kids.
Comments
so fresh and so clean! it looks lovely and I particularly enjoy the grey/orange combo in the bar up top.
can I podcast with you? we could call it "dispatches from the mayan empire" and it could totally rule. I am telling your website right now to remember me.
posted by: mary at January 4, 2005 07:44 AM
looks nice!
posted by: d at January 4, 2005 10:29 AM
