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Paleontology

Cold Boot

When I first moved my blog to Jekyll

This post is a part of my blog paleontology series. I dug up and restored this post on 2025-08-11. I've updated some links to the wayback machine when needed.

I spoke about this post in more detail in All Personal Blogs Die, But Mine Came Back As a Ghost.

I'd like to give a special thanks to James Hunt who's blog I forked (its amazing how you can actually fork a blog). As well as the inspiration to do so.

I used to have a blog at blog.overflowbit.com however it ended up becoming malnourished and so I decided to shut it down. One day I would like to set up a portfolio site at matthewbrunelle.com, however that would require having material to put in my portfolio. As of now I'm a high school senior for Rhode Island. I'm applying for the Google Summer of Code 2001, specifically with the Python Software Foundation. As such I needed a blog to post to and rather than set up a self hosted word-press install again I opted to try out Jekyll.

I can't wait to dig in to some real development!

~Matt

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