Rescue Old Blog
Two days ago, when I resurrected this blog, I thought I’d just start from scratch, leaving the 930+ old blog posts forever gone. Then I read how Amit moved from Squarespace to Hugo using the ExitWP tool to convert a Wordpress XML export to markdown files. I had an old export file lieing around and after just a few minutes with ExitWP I had 936 Markdown files, spanning 10 years (2003 — 2013) of my old blog content.
Many of the old links will be broken, no images or files made the transfer, but it’s actually great to see 10 years of my life re-appear.
Selected readings from times gone by:
- 18 - home Studio - small starts, 5 years later a lot of new gear has joined my studio. Still love Zebra though
- 27 - Pirate Coin - musings on Bitcoins (back in the days when we saw 30 USD / BTC)
- 32 - Stephan Eicher - Concert review
- 77 - It has been 10 years - Celebrating my 10 year anniversary of blogging
- Some thoughts on the iPhone 4s - The 4s still holds a dear place in my heart
- About this new thing - about my first iPad, back in June 2010
- The private net - 10 years ago I already was wary of the power of Google and other larger companies. We haven’t made a lot of progress, it seems
- Done - 10. April 2008 I finished writing my book on Ruby on Rails
- Lift 07 Connecting the dots - Reflections on the Lift ‘07 conference (I do miss those early year trips to Geneva)
- Babysteps - shout out to Henriette
- Turmsegler - My friend Benjamin started his blog “Turmsegler” in 2006
- Signed the Agile Manifesto - I signed in 2006
- Re-booted - version 8 - Reflections on Reboot 8 in 2006 (Another conference I dearly miss)
- Magic? Of course! - Real Magic!
- Brauchsam - Kindermund
- Lift Off - the start of the Liftconference - sadly the linked domain is peddling spam now
- Lotus Notes is not agile - but still alive, 14 years later
- Thinking on three levels, A near religious experience, Off to the north - just three posts about my “Kick in the ass” conference - Reboot7
- This Mac thing - Almost 14 years ago I made the switch to Apple OSX
- Rails 0.9.4 - and I still like working with Rails
- I have seen the future - Back 2004, when I worked for Bluewin and got the first view of mobile TV - it was not really useful
- But what is ZAPPATA - ah yes, our solution to the end of all email problems. Sadly the white paper had disappeared
- Textdrive hosting - Anyone remember the good old days of Textdrive?
- Remembering - a trip down memory lane, I still remember most of those things
- Blogger meets real life reader - Meeting Tanja for the first time, has it really been 15 years?
- InVisible GmbH - again, 15 years ago, my wife and I started our common company
- The Zen of skiing - I still think about this, every time I am on downhill skis
- Free the last mile - Back in 2003, I paid CHF 195 / month for 512/512 KbS internet. I was not happy
- VOIP - first mention of Skype
- Erster Sex und SM Kontaktanzeigen - probably the post that got most search hits over the duration of my blog
- Reading the Humane Interface - Jef Raskin himself commented on this review of his book. Still a great book
- The browser, the one user interface - I was wrong, Tim Bray was right
- LinkedIn - Locked Out - LinkedIn - I think, I was user nr 4000something
- Back from the past - I wrote the first Wiki in Lotus Notes (Ben Poole improved it significantly later)
- Atropin - oh my, dont try this at home
- Kinderphilosophie - by now, my son has his own princess
- Apache Slow Down solved - the very first blog entry (2003-02-18) that has survived. I blogged earlier (maybe a year or two)