03.12.04

Why you can't find what you're looking for

Posted in General at 8 pm

If you have come to Dwelling (this journal) because of a search engine result, that result may be off by a about 400. When I imported some of my old journal entries, I had to renumber them all so that the newer entries increased their values by quite a bit.

Look at the URL for this entry (this assumes that you’re looking at a page that only has this entry on it.) and you’ll see a really long number with a lot of zeros in front of it. That URL needs to have 400 added to the numbers in order to find the new number for it.

For those of you playing along at home: if the entry you’re looking at has the number “000000245.shtml” then you simply need to change the 2 to a 6 and hit return. You’ll end up looking at entry number “000000645.shtml” which will have the content you’re searching for.

Since some of my entries are more highly linked than others I will manually put forwarding links on the entries themselves in order to save people the trouble.

The search engine indexes should be up-to-date in about 6 months. The other links to these entries from other people’s archives and sites may take a lot longer, if not forever. Oi.

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