lornamatic

So I’m gradually in the process of starting up a new design on my blog. And it’s coming along, slowly but surely. I’ve used Blogger for the past five years, I love Blogger - I’ve even worked to bring photo software for Blogger to market. I’ll keep using Blogger for simple lists for a long time to come, but I’m biting the bullet and changing my main blog over to Wordpress, specifically because I need the Categories and Pages feature that Wordpress offers.

Since I’m changing authoring environments, what better time to change over to a new design? And my friends watch me wrangle with Wordpress and say, Hey, you know there’s all kinds of tools to import your Blogger archives over to your new system!

Now here’s the thing I don’t get. My old blog is a piece of my history. It’s a slice of design in time, based on my skill level and my interests as well as the technology available at the time it was made. Sure, I could import my old posts, get a few more features, but I’d lose all the layout of my old blog, as it was when I first made and published it. Why would I want to lose all the history there?

So I’ll be archiving my old blog, exactly as it was at the time I stopped writing it: http://lornamatic.com/blogger/blog.htm. It’s a piece of my personal history, and maybe it means I’m sentimental. So be it. It’s not as if saving it takes up any closet space.