I was reading on t’interweb about the Russian owners of Livejournal laying off most of its staff without any severance packages, and since all of these people are in the technical area, leaving only sales people left its a bit of an interesting time.

So being a IT person and therefore a BIG advocate of OpenSource. I decided I had better back up my data. For those of you interested in such things, or wishing to back up your own data I suggest a program called ljarchive.  It is a good idea as you could have years worth of memories you may loose.

After downloading my data, I sat there with my back up of several years of pointless drivel from Livejournal, inspiration hit. Where better to store a backup of my old blog, but in the archives of the new blog?

So, quick import of data from the ljarchive file, a tweak on posting info, and bob’s your great uncle.  And this blog suddenly backdates several years. I have hidden all the MEME’s, most the Insanity, and all of the plans for global domination.