Blade Edge

So I spent about 5 hours tonight getting the year of 2004 transposed from my journal over at GDNet here to this blog. It wasn’t all that arduous a process – I just had a lot of posts to move. Looking back, I updated a lot more often than I do now – the entire month of October and the majority of November and December. I started the journal at the end of September, so I really only had 4 months worth of entries to deal with, not a whole year’s worth. Plus, it’s easy to set the date of the entry back. When I moved journal entries from an old project forum to my Blade Edge forum (now lost *sniff*) I had to go into the the forums DB files and change the numerical date, which was a number of seconds from when the PC that hosted the forum was started (or something gay like that). So for example, 123984326 would equal Jan 20th, 2002. If I wanted to edit a post date to be the next day, I would have to add 86400 seconds (24 hours) to that number. Oyez, don’t get me started on calculating exact posting times.

Also, I had an excuse to read through my entries from 2004, which was nice – lotsa good memories, especially from the Batman show. As you can see from clicking on the link, I’ve also been very meticulous in the tagging of my entries, so that I can also point you towards all the development work I did in 04 on my Katana engine. Good stuff eh? Not to mention coming across gems like this post that I had completely forgotten about. Awesome, LOL. They never caught me, it was great 😉

Finally, I was also able to fix some dead links to media files in several posts by finding them on my hard drive and re-uploading them to the server now that I have gigs more space to kill.

I’m going to try and transpose one month a night from here on out, depending on how many posts I made in that month. I might be able to get 2-3 months in per day. Once I’m done with that, I can call this blog feature complete and finally turn my attention back to Joomla and getting my production site up and running. Right now tho I wanna play some Guitar Hero, read and then sleep.