Oh, yeah, I'd been meaning to....

Last night I was reminded of something I'd been meaning to do, write a script that would back up a livejournal. I initially conceived of it one of the times LJ did its "not responding" thing or when it lost a couple of months worth of posts for a few hours. As I do, I got distracted, LJ came back, life went on. But what if it went away entirely (or became entirely fee based)?

So I started to poke around and see what was available. Right off I found an LJ Perl module that although primitive saves the hassle of parsing HTML. Now I've got a program that outputs a primitive dump of all my posts, like a typist on six kinds of speed. It's formatted so that I can work with it data wise more or less, but not so anyone would want to read it. Now I really do have to ask myself, how do I want to store this info. Maybe I'll think on it a while.