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July 26, 2010

A somewhat ironic blog entry ()

by fluffy at 10:16 PM
Every now and then I look at some of my older blog entries and then get a bit horrified about how much old crap I have on here that I don't really want people reading anymore (if only because it comes across as horribly narcissistic if nothing else). But going through and cleaning it up is an obnoxious pain. So today I finally did some SQL-fu and had it automatically unpublished all entries older than 3 years except for ones in a few categories which are generally full of stuff I would want to keep around (or which were already friends-only).

I'm sure there's still plenty of stuff that I should remove but I think this is good enough for now. I went from 2300 to 1300 published entries so I've already contributed to a roughly 50% reduction of blog effluvium!

Comments

#13254 07/26/2010 11:37 pm
None of the entries I care about are gone, so thumbs-up?
#13255 07/26/2010 11:38 pm
Aw, you care? <3
#13256 07/26/2010 11:39 pm
You may reliably check your referrer log...
#13257 07/26/2010 11:43 pm
Oh, actually, I haven't deleted the published entries just yet - I've just made it so they don't show up in site spidering and so on, and aren't clickable from the navigation links and so on. And because of how I have comments set up, comments are still postable on those.

I might go back and delete the stale php files (the comment threads will still be there on the forum though) but I think this is sufficient. I just want it to not be around for site perusal and casual Googling.
#13258 07/26/2010 11:46 pm
Loose lips don't sink ships; casual Googling does.
#13259 07/26/2010 11:55 pm
Yes, as I found out once!

Anyway, all of the entries you were looking at are in whitelisted categories. Although I should probably go back and friend-lock most of them anyway.