I just decided to save my archives for posterity and observed yet again that Blogger had made a mess of them. Some aren’t linked at all and other links go to the wrong date. Still they’re all there and I’ve now got copies safely filed on my hard disk.

This brings me to a more general problem, the increasingly common practice of shifting material to archives a week or so after publication and breaking the initial link. I’m sure there are good reasons for this, but it’s really bad for blogging and, to my mind, violates the basic idea of the Web.