Keith Graham

I had the idea that since I am putting up all of my old data as static HTML pages on my home computer that might try t do the same with Facebook. I have a lot of data on Facebook. I started posting in 2008 - that’s 13 years.
Facebook has a page where you can download all of your posts, comments, images and videos. I tried it but the download file was too big and it failed. I wound up being able to download the data, but including the low resolution images.
I have started parsing the posts and images, but I can’t cross reference the comments to the post that they are related to.
My goal is to make a complete flat file web page that can be browsed from beginning to end. It is lots of work and lots of programming, so it may be a while before I can make it all work.

(This is not a technical post. I’ll do that next.)
I now host about 15,000 pages on my home computer. Most of these are pages that I’ve written, but many are created programmatically.
I started blogging when the WWW first appeared in the early 90s. I created one long page and kept on adding to it. When Blogger.com appeared I switched over to it. When WordPress appeared I switched over to WordPress.
For 30 years I kept adding to my websites. I kept four blogs and added to them several times a month. I had CThreePO.com where I collected information about writing Science Fiction. I had JT30.com where I collected information about playing harmonica. I had HarpAmps.com where I collected amplifier information. I then created a website called IDI0T.com where I wrote about programming. I switched that over to BlogsEye.com which I used for an online novel, but I abandoned that project. I never liked the name idi0t.com so I flipped over to BlogsEye.
I am seriously thinking about compiling information from CThreePO.com into a book called “Help in Writing Science Fiction”. Most of it is written already. All I would have to do is organize it and reformat it. It would be lots of work, but I think I might make a few hundred bucks off of it.
My web server is getting about 200 unique users per day and a few thousand pages. Some of these are robots scanning every page in a domain. Some of these are web scrapers and I find copies of my websites running on servers in Russia or Eastern Europe. I have to fix up my access rules tokeep these actions to a minimum.
It feels good to be back in the web business. I have WestNyackHoney.com running on a server. It is a WordPress blog. On the same domain I have a chicken blog and a beekeeping blog, but both have been abandoned for 10 years.
I also act as Web Master for TuxedoHighway.com which is Larry’s band site. In addition I have the domain TragicBabylonPublishing.com. This is for an anthology project that seems to have failed. I sold them a story, but was never paid. I’ve moved it over to a free blogger account, but I still pay for the domain. I’ll renew the site one more time and then I will inform the editor that it will die soon.
I have to put WestNyackHoney.com on the server and then I can stop paying for my web host, a savings of about $200 per year.

I used to run wget, an old command line Unix utility program, to “get” things from one server and drop them on another. I am pretty sure that it came with an old version MS-DOS or Windows.
I am using wget to clone a copy of my JT30.COM website from the internet down onto my local disk. The command line (sorry no window for wget) is

wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent https://site-to-download.com

I am grabbing JT30.COM so that that I can use my local disk to host my websites and this is the next one on my list. I am using wget in order get “flat files” only because the original site uses the PHP programming language to fix files as they are requested. My goal is to have no programming at all on any of my sites. So far wget has copied more than 22,000 files and shows no sign of stopping. JT30 was a big website and I wrote or collected lots of information on how to play blues harmonica.
At one point I had split off several website into their own domains because JT30.COM was getting too big. Since then I have recombined the websites into one big one. I had HARPAMPS.COM, HARPLOG.COM, HARPL.COM and probably others that I don’t remember. They are all together now, though.
Wget has been running for a half an hour and shows no sign of slowing down.
The next site that I get will be BLOGSEYE.COM which was my programming blog for many years. It has a few thousand blog entries, but will be easier to work with since I gave up the domain a long time ago (it is now registered with a domain squatter so I can’t get it back). I have a zip of the last version of the site. I will probably be adding it here to my KPGraham.com domain.

Several years ago I moved all of my domains to Google. At $12 per year they were cheaper than the domain company that I was using. (This was so long ago that I don’t even remember who handled the domains before Google.) Recently CloudFlare started doing domain name registrations for about $8 per year. You don’t need to convince me that saving a total of about $40 a year by switching all of my domains is a good idea.
The main problem that I had was using Blogger.com accounts. Google makes it easy to use a custom domain with Blogger. I can’t get it to work with CloudFlare. The one I had setup for Erica is now a redirect, but it gets very little traffic so I don’t think anyone will ever notice.
The last one that I have yet to do belongs to the editor of a magazine that I sold to. I volunteered to help with the domain (big mistake) and for the last 6 years I have been paying for it. He has problems dealing with the publication process and may never publish the book that the domain is advertising. 6 years later and the book has not been published, I have not been paid and there seems to be no future in the domain. The story is good and I could get a few hundred dollars for it if I sold it somewhere else. When I bring this up the guy says he has a signed contract and threatens to sue me.
I don’t want to resort to a redirect, because I am afraid that I’ll get a snarky email. I’ll guess I’ll try it and see what I can do. I’ll steel myself to the nasty feedback. Worse comes to worse I’ll offer transfer the domain to him and let him do the development.