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08/27/2003 Archived Entry: "NOAH GREY"

NOAH GREY

Noah Grey developed the program for this manner of blogging. There are several programs out there, all with flaws of one kind or another, but this is one where you can keep the material on your own server and have control of it. That's why I switched from Blogspot to this. One of the reasons. Blogspot has a habit of losing archived material.

But this is a very fragile program, particularly after you get so much stuff on it. Noah only wrote it then let loose of it, gave it to anyone who wanted to continue with it, I guess. He wasn't interested in dealing with the small kinks here and there. There are people who have gathered information about it, they know what the program does at times, but can't explain why.

As I was rebuilding files yesterday, the program stopped dead in its tracks. My friend tried to get it rebuilding from her string of computers in TX but it was incredibly slow there as well. We thought perhaps it was server problems, but it wasn't. This program is incredibly fragile.

One of the solutions may be to take off my 2002 blog archives and store them on a separate hard drive, or disks, etc. A 40 mg hard drive would be good to store a lot of stuff I have on my computer. So, we're going to work on that.

If you should want anything I wrote last year...and I can't imagine why anyone would...I could access it and send it. Eventually, we may have available a six month archive for readers, the rest we'll store elsewhere. I have 75 mgs of storage space on my server...MetaPros... and have filled close to half of that with my website, blog and the engine that runs it.