Saturday, September 08, 2012

Blog Chaos Beginning To Settle Out

After much stress and five efforts I finally managed to get most - maybe all - of the old JS-Kit (formerly Haloscan, formerly Echo) comments successfully transferred from the old Blogger blog to the new Wordpress blog. Yay! But then, by necessity, I altered the Blogger blog's template and proceeded to vaporize the old JS-Kit comments before the end-of-the-month JS-Kit comments termination deadline. (I still have a local copy of the comments, but it may not be very useful).

Interestingly, at this time, it does not appear possible to copy the old comments back over to the old Blogger blog. There is a method that would work for small blogs, but mine is a large blog. So, for the moment, the old comments reside on the new Wordpress blog, and not over at the old Blogger blog. So, the new blog has all the old stuff. It's all very confusing. And worrisome too. If the Wordpress blog is ever lost due to non-payment, or an asteroid strike, or whatever, then the old comments will be endangered again, unless software options improve and get exercised!

But, the important thing is, the old comments still survive on-line! Just not in both blogs. But they linger still! Halleluljah!

I was trying to think of an analogy to my situation. Picture the crew of the Starship Enterprise (my old comments) being endangered by a fatal disease. So, I built a new Starship (the Galaxy) and tried to beam over the crew from the Enterprise, but the transporter malfunctioned. On the fifth try, the transporter worked, after a fashion, but created clones of the crew on the Starship Galaxy, and let the original crew remain on the Enterprise. Then, before the disease struck, I remodeled the Enterprise, but inadvertently killed off the original crew in the process. Still, the clones survive! Long live the clones!

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