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Well, my notes to Blogger Control didn't help, and the problem with my archives just kept getting worse - first, the archive index was not properly parsed, then (today) it just wouldn't write at all - so I came up with my own solution.

Thanks to the magic of Perl, I just built a dynamic page that scans the directory and writes the archive links. (Archive Index)

Hey, the damn thing even works...

I understand that Bloggle is growing/going through the transition phases of its integration (Blogger => Google), and they have done some good work. The actual browser-based tool that is used it a vast improvement over the old tool (perfect? no. but what fun would that be?), and the publishing seems way faster - probably due to moving to Google's more stable and scalable platforms.

That doesn't mean that I liked having to craft my own solution, but I understand the transition issues and, hell, this is currently a free service.

Fair is fair.

And it was fun to quickly whack together the Perl solution.

As I've mentioned before, I seem to be turning to Perl more and more for quick solutions, simply because it is so damn flexible.

Bets on when I get my Blogger archive back??