Tinbasher Blog to Gather Virtual Dust

Earlier today I received an email from the British Library. The inability to recall taking anything out probably meant the fine for not returning it was going to be a whopper. I was envisioning me having ‘borrowed’ Leonardo Da Vinci’s original sketchbook in a confused booze-hazed event circa 1996 and they’d finally caught up with me.

Mexico was sounding good.

On opening said email I was pleasantly surprised to be informed that:

The British Library is building a collection of blogs. This collection will form part of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) initiative to archive websites of research interest. Please visit www.webarchive.org.uk if you wish to see the current online archive which is publicly accessible.

We would like to invite you to have your site included in this important collection for Internet research. We will be selecting some 150 key sites to form the basis of the blog’s collection until August 2007 but archiving will continue into the future.

So, in a nutshell, The Tinbasher is going to be part of the British Library’s Internet Research Archive for as long as they keep paying their hosting bills.

As I absorbed the implications of somebody 200 years hence being able to view this nonsense researching a paper relating to their Phd in New Corporate Communications History, I couldn’t help but raise a wry smile: immortality is such a humbling experience. At least now I can rest easy at the thought of leaving something for future generations apart from a pair of soiled underpants buried under some rocks in a non-biodegradable carrier bag. (I was thirty six.)

Shall we dedicate this one to Craig? I think so.

Please note: all comments are now eternal or for as long as dispensationalist end-times theory allows.