Comments on: Do you ever reread your past blog posts?

By: Yumeka

Yumeka — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:57:36 +0000

@ Jan

Yeah, a handful of them have gotten corrupt, a few because they got scratched, and for the others, I’m not really sure. The disc burner on my desktop computer has issues sometimes, so that’s probably a factor. For the past couple of years I’ve been saving my anime and important things on an external hard drive, which will hopefully last a long time.

By: Jan Suzukawa

Jan Suzukawa — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:36:11 +0000

Whoa, I’d heard CDs and DVDs eventually expired, but… you’ve had some that died already? I thought it was supposed to take decades for a disc to wear out. Geh! Back to paper hard copies. ;)

By: Yumeka

Yumeka — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:19:34 +0000

@Mike
Yeah, I sometimes look back at things I wrote that are now wrong or obsolete. For blog posts, I try to resist the urge to change or delete them, simply because they’re good representations of my past thinking. Sometimes I’ll just slip a little “UPDATED” notice on the post to show that I now understand the information to be wrong but it’s still available to read.

@2DT
I have a handful of CD and DVD-roms that are now dead. That’s why I started saving things on hard drives now rather than discs but even those could go bad some day. Most tangible artifacts can survive for centuries but the same can’t be said for digital data. Wonder what kind of a future that will lead to.

@Shance
Exactly, it’s nostalgic and a great way to try and improve yourself.

By: Panther

Panther — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:08:11 +0000

Haha I was thinking the same thing recently. I hardly do it, but there are times when I click on an old post for reference to something, and suddenly find myself reading it and thinking, “Damn, did I write this?” A good comparison, but not wise to do too often for most people.

By: Shance

Shance — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:26:21 +0000

Actually, you’re never alone on this one. I mean, we’ve got a lot of reasons for us to trackback and have our little moment of nostalgia or whatnot about it. For me, it was really good, and humbly speaking, life-changing, since the way I blogged before is very, very much the opposite of how I blog now. I got good and bad reception, I changed some of my ways, and for some reason, reading back not only brings back memories, but also opens more room for improvement, if not for the blog, for oneself.

By: 2DT

2DT — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:18:16 +0000

Even discs go dead one day. Rather quickly, actually. But that just goes to show how transient life is.

I’m still trying to figure it out, actually.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:50:54 +0000

Normally, no, I don’t reread my old posts. At least not for fun. Sometimes I hunt for them to look for what I might have said on a subject in an earlier time, mostly to help me in the writing of a more current article. Like you I’ve had the experience of looking at something 1, 2 years old and thinking–I wrote that? Other times, it also keeps me humble: I sometimes see things I wrote or predicted which turned out to be laughably wrong in hindsight or a hasty prejudgment. My first impression of Kimikiss is perhaps the biggest one I can think of–I turned into a big fan of the show not long afterwards.

By: Kairu

Kairu — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:47:01 +0000

No. And that reminds me to edit my old blog posts because images are dead and there are some spam comments!