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Restoring the Beginning of All Dreams
From an old résumé CD to GeoCities.ws, I trace how Shoomi’s dream-themed homepage survived, then rebuild its lost 90s magic with webfonts, MIDI parsing, canvas applets, color tools, and a new hit counter service. Read More
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Working Alongside Her
Working through old entries has brought me back to my mother. Through her memoirs, I’m seeing a different side of her. One that doesn’t erase the past, but adds context, complexity, and a slow path toward understanding and forgiveness. Read More
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A Life Recovered from MiniDV
Old MiniDV tapes revealed forgotten footage from 2008—woods that no longer exist, family moments, and fragments of a life once lived. What began as digitization became something deeper: a rediscovery of memory, time, and the person I used to be. Read More
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Restoring a Second Life Identity
Revisiting my Dedric Mauriac Second Life archive, I rebuilt thousands of images into a searchable static site and blog. What began as preservation became reflection—reconnecting a virtual life with my real one, and understanding how it shaped who I am today. Read More
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Reclaiming Flickr: The Final Phase
The final phase of my Flickr migration focuses on intentional resizing, metadata preservation, and reconstructing community context. With AI-assisted descriptions and chronological rebuilding, thousands of images now live independently on my blog—optimized, searchable, and no longer dependent on third-party platforms. Read More
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Reclaiming Flickr: Owning My Photos Again
Importing my Flickr archive became more than a data migration. It turned into a full reconstruction project—mapping IDs, rebuilding albums, extracting EXIF data, and using AI to enrich thousands of images—transforming dormant backups into a searchable, living archive. Read More
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Template Revival
Restoring my late-1990s websites has pulled me deep into the archives. From dial-up design tricks and table layouts to VBScript conversions and WordPress integration, I’m rebuilding old templates so earlier versions of my digital life can live on. Read More
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“Gutbusters”: How the Civil War Built the Modern Ambulance
A lecture on Civil War ambulances revealed how battlefield triage, wagon design, and relentless logistics shaped modern emergency medical systems. From “gutbusters” to standardized evacuation, innovation born in war transformed crisis transport into lasting civic infrastructure. Read More
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13 Years Later… My Domain Finally Came Back to Me
After 13 years wandering the web, my original domain finally came home. I discovered it dormant while browsing the Wayback Machine, reclaimed it, and secured it for the next decade—along with memories of tiny pages, lost history, and unexpected adventure. Read More
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Bloginality: The INTP Personality
In 2004, I appeared among hundreds of Bloginality visitors on its INTP personality page after taking a weblog personality quiz, leaving a comment about how online popularity felt different from my real-life personality at the time. Read More