Bloggered up: My archives are in a mess. They've been in a mess ever since Blogger decided that 'New Blogger' was an improvement on their old service and therefore I should be 'upgraded' to it. They've completely lost my December, shifted my November and given me twoOctobers instead. This is not a good swap. I've not dared to press the republish all archives button since I was switched over to New Blogger because I suspect I'd lose even more complete months that way. My archives are now incomplete, with ads that shouldn't be there on the remaining pages and broken links that no longer lead anywhere. Cheers guys.
This problem has arisen because Blogger thinks my months start at 8am, not at midnight, because that's when months start on Californian time. In a nutshell, everything I post before 8am on the 1st of the month gets shifted into the month before, and the wrong monthly archive gets published as a result. I've emailed Blogger, except they don't read the emails of people who haven't paid to use the service, and I can't pay to use the service because they appear to have removed that option when New Blogger appeared. I suspect I could solve the problem by deleting all the posts I've ever written in the first 8 hours of a month, but someof them are quite good, so I'd rather not. And I can't move my blog to another program like Moveable Type because one of the most important things you have to do before you migrate is to make sure that all your archives are published properly, and mine aren't. So I'm bloggered.
Thankfully I always save a copy of my archives each month, so I've been able to reconstruct December on my own server, even if all the comments have had to go and lots of the links don't work any more. Result, I've updated my sidebar so you can now click back into diamond geezer's complete back catalogue once again. But, Blogger, how lame is this? Don't leave me this way.
