Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Blog

I've retired the robot file. For now.

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Thanks to Michael, I had robot.txt guilt. I didn't want to be thought of as a forked-tongue politician, though I had very good reasons for not wanting people to see all the earlier car wrecks my blog used to be. Very good reasons. Mainly embarrassment.

Anyway, I disabled the file and let the Internet Archive reveal the ugly secret that is Lone Prairie: its early versions are sort of available. From infancy to it's teenage years of now.

You can watch as I discover the glory of tables and graphics and all things good bad design ought to consist of. You can read some terrible writing, like the gloriously mundane and yawn-worthy "Germany Trip Journal." Or the 60,000 word ("where's her editor?!") dissertation, basically nothing more than a long-winded tale of standing outside in the cold for hours so I could sit about a mile away when President Bush came to Fargo.

In general, embarrassment.

2006 and 2007 are missing, since that's when my robot.txt file went into effect, but you can see that portion live and as-is, pretty much, right now, its own kind of embarrassment.

Really, it's so awful, I can't not share it.