The SolderSmoke Daily News blog now has more than 4,000 posts, and some 10,000 comments. This is both good news and bad news. The good news is that there is on this blog site a vast repository of useful information. The bad news is that I sometimes fear that all this info might be lost if Google someday decides that its blog service should disappear. It could happen, and that is kind of scary, so I have been looking for backups, for ways to safeguard this information.
Several members of the SolderSmoke community have been helping me create WordPress sites that backup the blog. More info will be coming soon. The Internet Archive and the WayBack machine have also been of great help.
While here in the Dominican Republic, I have been working on a kind-of compilation of blog articles, with a bit of an intro. I think readers of the blog and listeners of the podcast might find this entertaining.
So here it is. Please download it to your computer. That will increase the survivability of the blog. I will probably do a few updates to the .pdf file:
http://soldersmoke.com/SolderSmoke Blog Book Compilation.pdf
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Good morning Bill! I downloaded the pdf. You have a pretty blog! Wow! I know I've seen a lot of the things before, but there's something about having the posts laid out like a book that makes a difference. This is cool!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I don't know if all our discussions about blogspot maybe disappearing one day caused this, but did you see that Google added a new feature where they'll sprinkle search links in your blog post for you? What do you think of it? I haven't tried it yet.
Fantastic Bill. Downloaded, and will be backed up and distributed to others in the future. Please let us know if and when there are updates.
ReplyDeleteI am about to begin gently wrestling with a single J310, a green LED, and a vario-coupler. I think you can see where this is heading :-)
73 for now,
Dave
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PS - my computer warned me that your blog is an insecure download. Well, I'm pretty secure about my homebrewing abilities, so I went ahead and kept the file :D