This post is mainly to help me keep track of what on earth I'm doing with them all.
Although we first registered the www.sift.co.nz domain back in 1998, it wasn't used for any websites at that point, and we mainly used the "SIFT" name for a range of t-shirts parodying the "SHIFT" motor-cross clothing brand.
SIFT BLOG #1
https://web.archive.org/web/homepages.paradise.net.nz/wheels/sift
The first SIFT blog was set up in 2002 using Adobe Dreamweaver (back when it was cheap, & Adobe wasn't yet evil) and hosted on Paradise.net. That blog is long gone now, but backup copies of it are on Wayback Machine dating back as far as 2003, and even back then I was already going hard out about a range of subjects including 911.
SIFT BLOG #2
http://wheels-frot.blogspot.com/
The first SIFT blog using the Blogger platform was set up in 2009 mainly just to test out Google Blogger.
I had other websites on the go, and never took that one very seriously, but I did do occasional short posts on it right up to 2015. It's still on there but despite having been online for over 15 years, it's only had 88,500 hits, an average of 16 hits per day. So it's never been exactly pumping!
SIFT BLOG #3
www.frot.co.nz/design/sift.
As a bit of an experiment in 2022 I set up a SIFT blog on our FROT server using WordPress - The problem was that by then (during the Covidhoax) everything on our server was grey listed and getting barely any hits. So I soon gave up on that experiment, and didn't do much with it, but it is still online.
SIFT BLOG #3
https://sift666.blogspot.com/
Disillusioned with my FROT blog, which was still only getting around 50 hits a day post covid hoax (down from over 2000 a day before covid), in late 2023 I decided to switch back to using Blogger, and at the start of 2024, I stopped posting on www.frot.co.nz altogether and started only posting on a brand new Blogger blog with my www.sift.co.nz URL pointing at it.
Apart from only getting about 100 hits a day, that went OK, until the end of 2024 when it started having technical issues. Firstly a post disappeared, and then the colours of my text and links started changing all by themselves. I was unable to change them back, and at one point it had black text on a black background with dark blue links. So it was totally unusable.
I temporally got it visible by putting it back to the grey default theme, although it looked hideous in grey, but after having another crack at fixing it I gave up trying to do a black background, and made it bright purple instead. Just like my first FROT website from 1998.
I stopped using it altogether at the end of 2024 and made it an archive, but then the hits started climbing, so I decided to keep on using it for now, and started copying all my new posts across to it. And that is why I now have a bright purple mirror of my current black SIFT blog.
SIFT BLOG #4
https://sift2025.blogspot.com/
Not able to properly fix my 2024 Blogger blog, I started over again with another new Blogger blog for 2025. Which all worked perfectly as far as the theme and formatting went, but not surprisingly the hits started out really low again, as they always do on new sites.
Nevertheless, this is now my current blog, and it's where I'm posting my new content. It only occurred to me after about six weeks that choosing the URL "sift2025" probably wasn't the sharpest of ideas, because it will look out of date next year, but too bad, it's going to be staying that way.
I did later set up yet another new blog with the URL "sift-nz" which is more timeless, thinking I might eventually switch over to using that one. But then I decided I couldn't be bothered, so I won't be using it. This SIFT2025 blog is where the www.sift.co.nz URL will be pointing to.
SIFT BLOG #5
https://sift911.blogspot.com/
After making various changes to my blogs such as changing themes to try them out, I found that it was all too easy to stuff up a bunch of settings, and have to waste ages sorting them out. So I decided to set up a blog purely for test purposes. It just has a few samples of my posts, so I can play around and test things out without worrying if anything goes horribly wrong.
I used the URL "911" for this only because it was available and easy to remember. I did used to do a lot of posting about the 911 psyop back in 2002, but I'm long over researching that old dinosaur these days. (It's in the too easy basket, along with other classics like "moon landing").
But I've now done all the testing I wanted to do so probably won't be doing much more with this blog.
SIFT BLOG #6
https://sift-nz.blogspot.com
The newest sift-nz blog is a copy of my current blog that was set up 15 March 2025. Being brand new it's not getting any hits apart from my own refreshes, but if anything goes wrong with my sift2025 blog, I can switch over to this copy of it.
Hopefully that won't happen, but I figured it might be a good idea to have a backup blog. I don't trust Google for obvious reasons, so I also have all my content backed up offline, and if it ever gets censored by Google I might set up a seventh SIFT blog, probably going back to using WordPress but hosted on a new server space that isn't grey listed.
The sift-nz blog was set up to look the same as my 2025 one, except it doesn't have all my blog content, or most of the extra content like links, pages, or image galleries. At this stage I'm not really using it.
