When I forced myself to cough out the subpages on this site that can hardly be called content, I originally opted to use WP’s pages feature for them.
WP constantly screwed up my coding, however, so after a day or two, I scrapped the pages altogether and fixed my content to be separate from WP, as it has always been whenever I’m bored at my wit’s end and resort to making stupid about me pages. I still wanted my archives to be in the domain section, though, but I couldn’t possibly use <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?> because, well, I just said why.
So anyways, I had to manually add the links, and with every monthly link I added for every year, I’d read the crap that I’d post about from long ago.
I seriously can’t understand how people managed to read my blogs back then. My entries made me cringe, I sounded so… dumb? tweeny? crack?
Reading those blogs made me think I was high when I wrote them. I should probably condemn those posts to the fiery depths of hell.
In other news, I enabled hotlink protection in cPanel because a whole slew of dolts were direct-linking my fanlisting headers (with the Yael one being the most popular and the Urbandub one in second place) in their Friendster profiles. No wonder that subdomain has been hogging all the bandwidth. *facepalm*
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Angela said on Jul 2, 2007 at 7:40 pm:
I still have my entries from 2003. I HAD older ones, but those were deleted on accident. I’m such a baby in those old posts! So I know what you mean.
Juice said on Jul 2, 2007 at 10:18 pm:
Yeah, I’ve always wondered how you did that. Putting your archives in a page. Now I know you do it manually.
Reading old posts can only be done once every 6 months or so. Reading them again and again is damage to the health hahaha.
Megan said on Jul 2, 2007 at 10:57 pm:
My older entries are probably 100 times more cringeworthy than yours. Even the ones from a month ago make me sound like I’m on something, but I keep all of my entries for the memories.
Emsz said on Jul 3, 2007 at 6:12 am:
Well, at least you know you are much more grown-up now ;) And the old entries are good for a laugh right? xD
Lauren said on Jul 3, 2007 at 12:06 pm:
yeah pretty stupid when people don’t know the correct way to spell it. Even if english is their first language. lol my next lesson is their/there/and they’re
Alex said on Jul 3, 2007 at 1:24 pm:
I wish I could read my old blog posts, but I was trying to upgrade Wordpress manually, but then I messed up and I lost my posts. I’m all paranoid now, and I back up my posts every day. :) I would enable cPanel hotlink protection as well, but it would mess up my brother’s gaming website which is hosted by me, so yeah. This is what I get for hosting family members.
Kelsey said on Jul 3, 2007 at 2:43 pm:
re-reading old blogs can definitely be painful. I used to but I keep from it now. Another cool thing to do is to visit the sites of the people who commented on some of your oldest blogs and see which sites are still around.
I tried figuring out wordpress once or twice, but I never really got the hang of it.
Christa said on Jul 3, 2007 at 5:24 pm:
I’ve gotten rid of all of my older blogs, just because if I were to read them I know it would bring back some bad feelings from a point in my life. Just ugh. It made me see that everyone isn’t how they show people they are.
Paddy said on Jul 3, 2007 at 11:26 pm:
Have you tried creating custom WP page templates? Not that I know how but I think that could be useful? Haha I accidentally deleted my whole site and all the entries included but I’m sure they would’ve made me cringe aswell. I think it’s best just to never look back! Haha
lk said on Jul 4, 2007 at 2:10 am:
Sometimes it is painful to dig through old websites or old offline journals and read what I have written. But I think as we grow as a person, we also grow as writer and how we present not only ourselves but our thoughts as well. I wouldn’t banish them. It is still a part of who you were.
Frutee said on Jul 5, 2007 at 3:53 am:
haha. i think everyone feels that way when they read their past post. even I do. :P
Gean said on Jul 5, 2007 at 9:16 pm:
Nung tinignan ko rin yung old blogs ko, nakakatawa kasi puro non-sense pinagsasasabi ko. Pero gara, ang galing ko magsulat ng mga tula back then. Ngayon wala na. :(
Erin said on Jul 5, 2007 at 9:52 pm:
I cringe at reading things I wrote a long time ago too. Sometimes it’s funny to see how silly you sounded, or what was a really big deal at the time, when in the long run it really didn’t matter much. It also serves as evidence of how much you’ve changed and grown over time, though, which is definitely a good thing.