I sure did, back in November of 2007, when I first envisioned I Remember JFK.

Fourteen hours of work recently begs to disagree.

Issue number one: Upon moving from one dedicated server to a more powerful one at half the price two years ago, a large number of graphics were lost. I went into the articles in question, beginning in May 2007, and deleted the references to the now missing graphical files.

The result was over a hundred articles from may to August of that year which became text-only, no pretty pictures.

That has long bothered me. So last week, I decided to take a couple of hours, go find new graphics, and re-illustrate the articles.

After six hours last Wednesday, I had not succeeded in fixing half of them.

So, yesterday, I woke up bright and early and put in another eight hours. There are still a couple of articles left, which I will get to today.

Issue number two: Youtube, and it's yank-first-ask-questions-later policy.

I had posted a dozen or so links to Youtube-posted commercials of the past, and most of them were removed due to copyright concerns.

Now, the way this works is that if you feel you hold copyright on anything that Youtube hosts, let them know. They will instantly take it down, and the person who posted it has to now prove that there was no copyright violation.

Of course, if someone has simply posted an old commercial, they blow off Youtube's request for confirmation.

Who wins? Some slimy outfit that has collected old commercials on DVD, wanting you to buy them. They hold NO copyright claim, but Youtube follows its paranoid policy. So getting them out of the public view, and forcing you to pay to see them, is a no-brainer for DVD manufacturers.

Who loses? We do.

Ergo, I have re-located many lost commercials, or else found replacements, and reposted Youtube panels.

However, I have ALSO downloaded my own copies and posted and linked to them here, on my server.

If I have anything that anyone feels is a copyright violation, let me know and I'll investigate.

But what I WON'T do is take anything down for trivial reasons.

All that being said, I'll be back next Sunday with a new Boomer reminiscence. In the meantime, why not revisit the May-August 2007 archives, and see the results of all my hard work?