May 1st, 2005 was a busy day for posting stuff to the World Wide Web. By my count I posted 30 items, including links to del.icio.us, posts on my weblog, and photos to Flickr. Most of them were about a flap about Creative Commons' relationship with BzzAgent. (Does the latter company matter any more? Haven't heard much about them lately.) The day previous, I had written my reaction. See the bzzgate tag for links to more about the controversy.
The way I know how many items I posted on May 1st, 2005 is that I now have, on my sidebar, the posts to this site I made on this day as far back as 2001. I posted the Drupal module code in a project using Bryght's public Subversion repository. You'll probably have to copy & paste it into a file called onthisday.module and install it yourself, at least until it gets its own project page on Drupal.org. Since I syndicated all of my del.icio.us and Flickr photos to my site, those should also appear in the listing, as there's currently no way to filter by content type, nor is there a way to point to a page with items either from this day x years ago nor to any other day x days ago. Just a straight list on the sidebar (in what Drupal calls a 'block'). Wouldn't also be great if there was a feed of this? Consider all those feature requests I've already made for myself.
(If it looks like some items are not from the day after they're supposed to be, it's actually a bug in how they got posted here. Every del.icio.us item helpfully gets posted with a timestamp 4 hours previous to the actual time, so in the case of URLs that don't match days, I'll just add 4 hours to that bookmark's date.)
I plan on doing light editing of old posts, such as making sure links are up to date (making the corresponding change on del.icio.us: an example just now is Jeff Angus' article on cognitive plaque) and there aren't any egregious typos, with the possibility of pointing, either in the comments or in the text itself, to any lengthier updates. (I have no problem re-tagging stuff as time passes by, either.) I plan on never changing the content, however. I still stand by what I wrote as an accurate reflection of how I felt at the time, no matter how cool—or, more likely, stupid—it was. It's in part yet another accountability measure but also in part a way for me to find out who I was back then, or at the very least, how I felt.
In case anybody was wondering, all my Flickr photos, del.icio.us bookmarks and anything else that appears on the justagwailo.com, unless otherwise specified, is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution License.