60 day old blog posts still important?

Last week some of you noted that the Chemical blogspace was no longer nicely updated every X hours. The code is not optimized for performance and the number of old posts (about 10k in 6 months!) made the update_posts.pl break down. Or really, the DreamHost service killed the process after taking too long. Fair; it's the online way to keep the systems from not breaking down over one website. I already had split up processing the first 75 blogs and the rest into two separate jobs.

So, now I made a more radical change, and deleted old posts older than 60 days. That's ancient history, not?

Broken Cb PipeLine...

Last week, someone reported me that his blog items were not showing up. He was right. There was an invalid XML file created at some point, which broke processing of the blog items using a Perl XML module. This is fixed now, and resulted in a big blog of new items today.