I have blogger archive my posts but I've never put links to it on my site. I do like having it around for the two or three times a year I feel like reading some entries. But I don't keep a journal that would overlap with my posts. I guess I feel that archives are masturbatory - no one else gets much pleasure from them, or cares that they're there.

Molly asked me to come here and comment, so that's what I'm doing. :) Hello random person who owns blueflower.org.

Back when I did a more bloggy-ish site, I definitely had the problems with random crappy old posts. On the other hand, I also had a number of pretty cool lengthy interesting stories that I wanted to keep.

For now, I've got all of that stuff archived, and I'm going to keep the cool stuff, and muck the silly stuff. Only I'm moving the cool entries to their own "stories" page (eventually) instead of maintaining them as a weblog.

I currently maintain an online journal, and I just don't write about the overly personal bits. It allows anyone who knows me to keep tabs on what I'm doing (helpful since most of my friends are in other states). And I just don't update it if nothing interesting is going on -- I file most of my inane comments to IRC now. :) My weblog (which is a seperate thing) is really just a web-log -- it's a list of interesting links with very little commentary. I'm considering changing the format to allow more commentary if I want to have some, but I don't feel the need to ramble on and on about every little link I find like some of the political blogs I read.

So, there you go. I just archive all of it, on the off chance that someone wants to see it later. *shrug* I get a lot of interesting google searches that way. Hope that helped.

Sometimes if I don't keep up with the site for a while (over a week or so), I have to go into the archives to know what's been going on. So I'm all for keeping stuff for a limited time and then banishing it forever. Nobody's going to go back and see what you were doing in 1999. More often than not, it's going to be boring anyway (like that one post where you did a "this day in Krist history" and it was really boring). Yep.