If you like to read blogs, I have several in the Journals section. One is under my previous ID "Coinz." Good luck, Coinz
It still has some good basic info in it. If you can get paste the flames that burned it down, you may be able to glean some useful knowledge.
you are still writting to yourself. of course there are egoists or noncontributors(ie parasites) on this board. perhaps we can start an hall of infamy. do you have any candidates.
"what was the point of the flames?" You'd have to ask the flamers. "did you learn anything by having the thread closed?" Yes, that closed threads cannot be posted on.