The blog is dead – long live the blog!

One of the reasons I blog, despite all the fame and fortune it brings me ;-) , is the fact that I can record, for my own benefit, solutions I have found to problems. One day I will need to find a particular factoid again and Google will bring me back full circle to where I left it. At least that is the general plan.

Today I was having an issue with namespaces. I was seeing namespaces differing only by case, e.g. myNamespace vs. MyNameSpace, and it was bringing back bad memories. I remembered that I had blogged about a similar problem once before and wanted to find that article to see if my problem might be similar. However, when I went to look for my old blog at DotNetJunkies.com, it was gone. Not just down, not just no longer supported, it was gone. When I first started this blog I considered migrating my old blogs to the new site but that seemed kind of harsh and, I thought naively, unnecessary. “I can just link to the old blog and life is good” I thought. Well … that was, in retrospect, pretty stupid.

All, however, was not lost. I remembered that there are sites dedicated to storing cached versions of web sites for posterity. One such site that I owe my thanks to is The Wayback Machine.  Thankfully they don’t discriminate based on perceived value! I was able to find my old blog stored safely away in the archive and recover my lost content.

So, thanks to the archives, I will be posting my old content here in the following posts. Re-posting feels a bit weird, kind of like making a “best of” album when I still don’t have a hit single but hey … it’s my blog.

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