That being from a quote of Alexander Cockburn:

"There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre"

It’s been a nostalgic pleasure to have stumbled on old thoughts of mine from 15 years ago. Even though I was hosting it independently, the timelineliness of it all made me nonchalant – about my own thoughts! I got lucky that the Internet Archive has saved some of what I appear to have thought were ephemera to me at the time. With digital gardening I feel I’ll be more respectful of my notions going forwards.
Having a ‘nowtions’ / ‘top of mind’ page in my digital garden is working well. I add new notions to it as they crop up, and visit it regularly which works as lowkey spaced repetition.