What a chore!

[c9]

I obsessive-compulsively live in fear that pictures I've posted in the past will disappear, on this wild, ever-chaging web. So tonight I made my own copies, and re-linked to them, for all the way back to August. It took way too long. They ought to automate that sort of thing.

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[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

agreed.

but, i'm rather crazy about filing systems and labeling.

i'm pretty much a freakishly organized pack rat.
i still have emails from 1998...

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

I think my email archive goes back to '93... but of course, it's on a CD and in a weird database format for an Amiga program called AmiMail (I think). Running strings on it would get me 99% of the text, though, so I suppose its feasible to think I could re-integrate all that old email into my current archive...

hmm... do I smell a Sunday afternoon project? :-)

Now, if I could only convince the school to let me have the mainframe archive tapes, I could get *all* my old email, right back to the beginning! (except for the BBS stuff, which would go back into the 80's...)

Thanks for getting me thinking about this! :)

[c9.livejournal.com]

Damn. I wouldn't have anything on those tapes, I don't think. I was on the UNIX systems from the start, and those I freely deleted.