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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and graphic designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
Opinions and comments on this site are the opinions of the author, not the author's employer, family, friends or pets. This site is powered by Movable Type and is hosted by orty.com. Since December 1st, 2002, there have been 6423 entries. Visitors to this blog have posted 20898 comments. If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands. |
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Updating The ArchivesYou may or may not know, but when I first started blogging, I blogged on the jake.orty.com domain. I started this blog back in '02 during a brief time of unemployment. Once I found work, I neglected the blog for several months, until I finally got around to posting again (was still at jake.orty.com back then -- hadn't moved to utterlyboring.com yet). When I got back to posting again, I had bulldozed the previous archives from the brief blip in May that I was posting here. I finally got around to getting on the Web archive and getting my old archives, and now have May 2002 back in my archives. Most of the links in those old entries are long dead, but at least they're back in the database. Now I just need to get my dozens of old dailyemerald.com columns into this database, since they're not accessible on the Web anywhere. I was an online columnist back before "blogging" was all the rage. I've been writing online since the 90s, you young whipper-snappers (get off my lawn) and it'd be nice to have that all in one place. But I figured I should probably ask the Emerald's permission first. so that's coming next. 2 Commentsmonkeyinabox said on 08/19/10 @ 01:43 PM:I'm glad I figured out how to make my own website back in 1995. Too bad I didn't know enough about domain names to register all of the major brands. ;) I remember when blogs started getting popular they didn't make much sense to me. How was it any different from a website that you updated often? The real thing about blogs that have power is the archiving of old posts. Back when you simply updated a site, the old content was gone. Now, all of your dumb mistakes and bad ideas are archived forever. Bravo for technology! Jake said on 08/19/10 @ 01:59 PM: "Now, all of your dumb mistakes and bad ideas are archived forever. Bravo for technology!"Indeed. Technology makes it MUCH harder to hide from stuff we wish didn't exist. Thankfully the latter isn't in the Web archive as of right now, as that was Geo-cities ugly, even if it was '96 when I made it. Post a comment |
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