The OpenLaszlo project blog was created on October 27, 2005. It was announced on November 9. Why then does it have postings dating back to 2004?

One of the goals of the blog was to replace the news items that had been manually edited into the openlaszlo.org home page since the site was launched. I've replaced those items with the last few, and a pointer to the archive here. That required importing those news item from HTML into the Announcements category of this blog. In other words, the blog itself is only a month old, but its content really does go back more than a year.

Another goal was to capture all the internal mail pointing out OpenLaszlo mentions and sightings, so that we could share them outside the company without having to blast them laszlo-announce. (That list was intended to be lower volume than this blog will be.) So, taking a leaf from Tucker's book, I copied all the items I'd been saving to someday announce, and imported them here as blog postings. Again, the content is older than the blog.

I had some qualms about backdating posts. It makes the blog look older than it really is. I was originally planning to move all the dates to the day the blog went public. But instead, in true blogger nature, I'll just write about the decision here. After all, it gives me something else to post

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