So with a bit of fiddling with blogger (old blogger was so basic I had to republish to blogspot and then import to wordpress) have managed to import my old blogger posts from 2000-2004. Because blogger didn’t use the same post title + post body format, the formatting’s not exactly bang on. And loads of the links won’t work because they were from 8 years ago and it’s a safe bet most of those sites and links will have long changed.

But as a basic archive, it’s quite mad to look back at the blog as a record of my life back then, as well as a snapshot of the nascent culture of blogging – back in the day when the launch of a new UK blog was a landmark event, and the blogging community was pretty small and tight-knit. And no one really got what this weblogging this was, and couldn’t fathom why we were writing stuff online about our thoughts and lives – or why people were reading it. They thought we were a bit mad, and this blog thing wasn’t likely to go anywhere. Plus ça change…