Beezly’s website used to be a drupal site with several people (anyone who fancied it) having access to write blog posts. I chipped in a number of posts myself, going back to 2004 as it turns out. At some point more recently he did some software migrations (fiddled with it a lot), and I had thought he must’ve carelessly thrown away all the old blog posts. I couldn’t find them any more. This even prompted me to go poking around in the waybackmachine to try to rescue my old posts and bring them onto this site with fudged timestamps (retro-blogging) Quite a lot of hassle, and only partially successful. For example I remembered writing an old blog post about passing out on a ski-lift which I hadn’t managed to rescue from archive.org

But I wasn’t looking closely enough, or maybe the ‘older entries’ links were missing during one stage of his re-skinning. But I noticed today that in fact beezly does still have all the old posts in his database still.

Here are my posts on beezly.org.uk going back to January 2004 :

• Jun 18th 2007 Google Streetview
• Aug 8th 2006 Munkyfest
• May 11th 2006 Mapchester
• May 3rd 2006 long weekend of beeriness
• Mar 2nd 2006 Kayaking Incident
• Feb 4th 2006 Rice man
• Oct 6th 2006 Technological Order and Chaos
• July 20th 2005 Google Moon!
• apr 24th 2005 Passing out
• Mar 16th 2005 The quick shaving conundrum
• Feb 18th 2005 Change of Plans
• Dec 13th 2004 London Saturday night
• Oct 1st 2004 Missing everything
• Nov 2th 2004 Snow in Flumserberg?
• Aug 27th 2004 Kayaking Holiday in Canada
• Jul 1st 2004 New Swiss house
• Apr 29th 2004 Upperthong weather station
• Apr 19th 2004 Me being nosey and prejudgmental
• Apr 15th 2004 London Friday Night Skate
• Mar 31st 2004 MS Outlook – Ctrl Enter
• Mar 26th 2004 Chewing stirrers/spoons
• Feb 17th 2004 The three phases of a cold
• Jan 22nd 2004 Secret toilet

Hurrah! Thank goodness for that hey? What a relief that my carefully crafted words have not succumbed to link rot after all. I thought there had been a dreadful gaping hole in the blogosphere all this time </sarcasm>

Update in 2017 (over a decade after writing these blog posts): Actually beezly’s website disappeared again, so I’ve just been rescuing them from wayback machine into the archive of this blog. All except for “New Swiss house” and “Long weekend of beeriness”, which seem to be gone forever. I guess we’re not missing much though