A bridge to the past
Don't worry, it's been de-trolled.
Substack is now the new home of the KGB Report. Well, some of the KGB Report.
I’m learning as I go here, and it may take a few days to get up to speed. If something isn’t working, let me know so I can pound things back into shape.
What about the “official” KGB Report website, which is hosted in a data center somewhere in Virginia? Visitors to the main page will be automatically redirected here. However, I’m keeping the old site’s archive page online. It features links to nearly 2,800 posts dating back to the previous century (1999). There’s also a category index, encompassing subjects ranging from 1.1.1.1 to Zora Neale Hurston.
At the top of the archive page, you’ll find links to our Commentwear assortment of pithy t-shirts, a collection of KGB Stuff, and DCL Dialogue Online, an archive of my DCL Dialogue columns which appeared in DEC Professional (later renamed Digital Age) magazine from March, 1987 through December, 1995.
I’m also maintaining and keeping online the KGB Quotation Database, which at the moment has over 57,000 searchable quotations.
The right panel of the archive page has some interesting diversions. The current weather conditions here in South Park Township, PA, the COVID-19 dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), and an assortment of links to sites and pages I enjoy.
The “Search kgbreport.com” box uses the Google Programmable Search Engine. It can instantly find just about anything that’s archived on the kgbreport.com website.
For the past few years I've been looking to migrate to a different blogging platform since the present software became orphaned. There are many excellent static site generators out there, but the thought of moving 22,000 .shtml files (1.13GB) and in excess of 3,300 image files was daunting, especially since I'm only passingly familiar with cascading style sheets (CSS). And that doesn’t take into account the changes in html coding that would have to be made on each page to accommodate the new environment. Or, even worse, having to figure out a way to automatically generate the Archive and Categories listings and links on the archive page.
So, like Solomon, I’m cutting the KGB Report in half. The old stuff will remain accessible on the kgbreport.com website, and all new stuff will appear here on Substack.
Wish me luck.