repositories for the rest of us: The downside of migrating ... and some administrivia

2007/05/02: The downside of migrating ... and some administrivia

Administrivia first - It seems as if blogger ate my comments settings so I didn't receive the auto-notify that I had comments awaiting moderation. Many apologies to those of you who commented. I've got everything reset now.

So. I've discovered the downside of migrating. It's reading the old documents you wrote and cringing in embarrassment. Way back in the day I used to write a column for San Diego Sidewalk. Remember the Sidewalk sites? They were Microsoft's answer to Yahoo local. They ended up getting bought by CitySearch. The column was called "Styletramps" and it appeared in the GLBT section of the site. I was the queer Vanna White of online shopping. The idea was to find fun, interesting things (fashion, music, whatever), and write about them. It was a fun gig -- they paid me $100 per column and the columns were small at 250 words.

I just pulled out the disk which had my columns and writing. Ach. The horror. The horror. Here's the bio I wrote for them:

I'm Laura Smart. Yes, that is my real name. No relation to Maxwell, but I was jealous when he married Agent 99. Barbara Feldman was not only a babe but a snappy dresser to boot! Like almost everyone else in this state I came from somewhere else -- London, Ontario to be precise. When I'm not style-tramping I'm a librarian (a.k.a. "Information Diva"). My multifarious dabbling includes playing keyboards, writing bad poetry, drawing, constantly redecorating my various spaces, matchmaking (always a bridesmaid, sigh!), and fashion on a shoe-string. Susie Bright is my hero. I'm dying to become Slater-Kinney's lead groupie and the first commercially successful female drag-queen. Maybe it's really a secret yearning to become Pamela DesBarres? While I convince Malcolm MacLaren to manage me, I'll continue my quest for San Diego's kookiest accoutrements.

I guess there really is a big difference between age 25 and 35. I am sooooooooo not that person anymore. Now days I spend my time training for long-range cycling trips with my wife and daughter, renovating my house, meditating at the Zen Center of Los Angeles, and making luscious raw vegan cuisine (fyi, i eat 80% raw ... but no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just play one on t.v.)

Labels: digital preservation, electronic files, life1.0, migration, refreshing, styletramp