While attempting to put some nav on the previous incranation of www.gulker.com, we’ve tripped over some much older past incarnations of the blog- an amusing trip into the ‘ancient’ roots of gulker.com.
I think I still have the hard drives (if not the technology – e.g. old SCSI ports) to resurrect some, if not all of the old gulker.com pages (I guess I’ll be renegotiating storage space with my hosting service if I decide to upload this stuff). It would be nice (…?) to have all of one’s blogging life in a single index. More (sometimes embarrassing) page images TK…
First morning of the new blog: already we have a few notes from readers. Charles offers an anti-spam tip, Barb wonders if link colors can be adjusted to suit older eyes (but, who’s aging?). Eugene can’t find my email address.
Today’s task will be getting the Feed Director plug-in working, so users who are subscribed to the old Radio-generated RSS feed will seamlessly be reconnected to the WordPress feed. And then I can start winding down the discussion of WordPress, php and MySQL, and ramp back up on the really important stuff, like how to cook pork shoulder in Cubano style.
Another to-do came while working on the archive nav page for the old site: I want to round up all of gulker.com since 1995 and make it a bit more accessible – kind of a personal Way Back Machine. In the old, old days, gulker.com was served for awhile directly out of a Userland Frontier database via a cgi and the venerable WebStar (originally MacHTTP)server software. We did all kinds of geeky tricks like inserting the time and IP address of the vistor, and changed the background image on every reload. So we’ve come full circle in 11 years, back to being served from a database. Amazing how much has changed, and how much remains the same…