Saving my LJ

Ridiculous as it may sound, my journal here is the largest body of writing that I've ever produced. It contains more of my thoughts than anything in the world, apart from my brain of course! :D

I'd like to be able to preserve it. Partly, I must admit, because the thought of death has been on my mind lately; I want to think that there will be at least something left of me that people will remember, Sebastian most of all.

The problem is that LJ-archive won't work for my journal. As far as I can tell, there must be a comment somewhere in the journal that contains some sort of code which is violently incompatible with LJ-archive; not only will it not archive my journal, but it completely destroyed the archive I had. Nothing in my journal has been preserved.

I went over and begged for help several times on the LJ-archive community and in other places, but had no luck. Mostly there was no response at all. I did some research online, and still found nothing. So I'm giving up on LJ-archive.

But I don't trust the Russian owners of LJ any more. They may decide to pull the plug at any moment, or hold all our journals hostage, or...well...who knows? So I need to figure out a way to make a backup or copy of my journal somehow.

One way would be to print it all out in hardcopy. But that would be a huge project, and occupy an enormous amount of paper. It simply isn't practical.

Perhaps I could use some other software? I don't think there are any alternatives to LJ-archive, though. There are other site-grabbing programs, of course, but will they be able to log in to my account and grab hidden posts? Probably not.

So I may have to simply "print" all of my entries as Adobe Acrobat files. I'd probably set up a folder structure to organize them by year and month, with the files themselves dated appropriately. That way I could also save my voice posts, and I believe the links in my posts would be functional.

Does that sound reasonable? Am I missing something? Can anyone suggest a better way?

Saving my LJ

Ridiculous as it may sound, my journal here is the largest body of writing that I've ever produced. It contains more of my thoughts than anything in the world, apart from my brain of course! :D

I'd like to be able to preserve it. Partly, I must admit, because the thought of death has been on my mind lately; I want to think that there will be at least something left of me that people will remember, Sebastian most of all.

The problem is that LJ-archive won't work for my journal. As far as I can tell, there must be a comment somewhere in the journal that contains some sort of code which is violently incompatible with LJ-archive; not only will it not archive my journal, but it completely destroyed the archive I had. Nothing in my journal has been preserved.

I went over and begged for help several times on the LJ-archive community and in other places, but had no luck. Mostly there was no response at all. I did some research online, and still found nothing. So I'm giving up on LJ-archive.

But I don't trust the Russian owners of LJ any more. They may decide to pull the plug at any moment, or hold all our journals hostage, or...well...who knows? So I need to figure out a way to make a backup or copy of my journal somehow.

One way would be to print it all out in hardcopy. But that would be a huge project, and occupy an enormous amount of paper. It simply isn't practical.

Perhaps I could use some other software? I don't think there are any alternatives to LJ-archive, though. There are other site-grabbing programs, of course, but will they be able to log in to my account and grab hidden posts? Probably not.

So I may have to simply "print" all of my entries as Adobe Acrobat files. I'd probably set up a folder structure to organize them by year and month, with the files themselves dated appropriately. That way I could also save my voice posts, and I believe the links in my posts would be functional.

Does that sound reasonable? Am I missing something? Can anyone suggest a better way?

Not dead yet!

I'm back from the test, and I'm not dead. My doctor will call me with the results later, but from everything I saw, there was nothing to be alarmed about. I asked the technician a lot of questions, and everything he told me about was normal.

The test itself wasn't as stressful as the last one (four years ago), and I regained my wind very quickly. I went past the benchmark point, which was good. And the cardiologist cleared me to leave without even bothering to see me. So it would seem that once again I am okay.

Nonetheless, I definitely need to lose weight. I'll be giving that more thought (and action) in the days to come. One rule that I think I can make for myself right now is not to eat anything after 8PM at night - because that's when I usually eat the most (and worst) foods.

PS - They shaved patches all over my chest. I am very uncomfortable - every move I make pulls at the shaved areas, because the little hairs that remain are getting caught in my shirt.

Not dead yet!

I'm back from the test, and I'm not dead. My doctor will call me with the results later, but from everything I saw, there was nothing to be alarmed about. I asked the technician a lot of questions, and everything he told me about was normal.

The test itself wasn't as stressful as the last one (four years ago), and I regained my wind very quickly. I went past the benchmark point, which was good. And the cardiologist cleared me to leave without even bothering to see me. So it would seem that once again I am okay.

Nonetheless, I definitely need to lose weight. I'll be giving that more thought (and action) in the days to come. One rule that I think I can make for myself right now is not to eat anything after 8PM at night - because that's when I usually eat the most (and worst) foods.

PS - They shaved patches all over my chest. I am very uncomfortable - every move I make pulls at the shaved areas, because the little hairs that remain are getting caught in my shirt.