Thinking out loud

I've wanted a client backup of my Live Journal (not the xml export - one that I can really use) for a long time. What I've always had in my little pea brain was:

• one web page for each entry


• including all comments


• saved in a folder on my computer


• automagially

I can actually do this manually, as it turns out. so I think it's doable.

I can get the URL that includes the post and the comments:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/susandennis/xxxxx.html?nc=yy

xxxxx= the number of the entry
yy=the number of comments (which, it appears, I can set to something very high like 300 and get all)

Then I save that URL as one, single web archive (.mht) file and everything is there - the look, the words, the pix, the comments, the live links - everything. To capture all the comments or most of them, this save thing would happen something like 48 or 72 hours after posting...

So I'm thinking something like every night, this batch thingie would go up and look and see what entries numbers have been captured yet and are now at least 72 hours old and then create the appropriate URL and save as a .mht file into a specific directory. Done.

How hard can that be? Hmmmm

Thinking out loud

I've wanted a client backup of my Live Journal (not the xml export - one that I can really use) for a long time. What I've always had in my little pea brain was:

• one web page for each entry


• including all comments


• saved in a folder on my computer


• automagially

I can actually do this manually, as it turns out. so I think it's doable.

I can get the URL that includes the post and the comments:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/susandennis/xxxxx.html?nc=yy

xxxxx= the number of the entry
yy=the number of comments (which, it appears, I can set to something very high like 300 and get all)

Then I save that URL as one, single web archive (.mht) file and everything is there - the look, the words, the pix, the comments, the live links - everything. To capture all the comments or most of them, this save thing would happen something like 48 or 72 hours after posting...

So I'm thinking something like every night, this batch thingie would go up and look and see what entries numbers have been captured yet and are now at least 72 hours old and then create the appropriate URL and save as a .mht file into a specific directory. Done.

How hard can that be? Hmmmm

Happy Happy Happpy BIRTHDAY!!

To..... Ian!!!!

Best I can figure, by the time I wake up tomorrow, it will be your birthday there. And, then, of course, we shall celebrate again when it's your birthday here!!! I hope both birthdays are wonderful.

Happy Happy Happpy BIRTHDAY!!

To..... Ian!!!!

Best I can figure, by the time I wake up tomorrow, it will be your birthday there. And, then, of course, we shall celebrate again when it's your birthday here!!! I hope both birthdays are wonderful.