Blog's Demise

I just found out a few days ago that my old site isn't working at all. Even worse, it's just not working per se, everything's gone. I had reecah.coms.ph since 2003, and since it's been filled up with ads all over early this year, I had to switch to blogspot and have the url redirect the user here. Thing is, it's not working at all, and I don't think I can ever access my old entries again. I'm keeping my hopes up that maybe one day it will go back. I'm not agitated at all so it's okay. Although I have some entries there, I think I'll be okay.

When I signed up for my old site, I just wanted to design a site, practice my HTML skills, not primarily to write stuff. After a while, I guess blogging grew on me. Well the stuff I wrote were meant for public consumption, it's not like I wrote some juicy details about anything that's not meant to be read or entries that I wanted to keep forever. Well I guess for posterity's sake, like it would be interesting if my mom had a blog back then, and I'll be able to read it. I still have years ahead of me to write(I hope blogspot doesn't shutdown, I read that it's owned by Google) Plus I have a real journal that's handwritten and kept safe in my room. The entries online are more of like stories we tell, stories and experiences we tell our friends, stuff that we share. I mean the fact that people were able to read it, I guess it already served it purpose. And I have another journal with me, so it's okay :) But if people are attached to their entries and it's the only journal they have, I guess they have to learn to back up their entries. Back up back up back up. One of the lessons I learned when I was in college, back up all your files.. one day your PC just might crash. Same thing with blogs, who knows, one day everything might just crash. Okay I sound too pessimistic, but it's a harsh reality because it happened to me.