It was twenty years ago today
I wrote my first public blog post on 2004-05-110. I immediately followed it up with a brief review of my BlackBerry1.
I kept up the blogging for a few months, then it trickled off. I preferred posting on Usenet and other primitive forms of social media. But, by 2007, I was back to blogging on my own site again, and I never really stopped. This blog fluctuates between being a diary, an excuse to rant, and technical writing. It's my site and I can do whatever I want with it. That's rather freeing.
I have an "On This Day" feature of my blog. Every morning I check what I was writing about on this day in years gone by. I find it informative and meditative to see how much I've grown2 and what topics I keep returning to.
I'm not big on milestones or anniversaries. But it does feel rather nice to know that I started something a few decades ago that is still a going concern.
Here's a little treat to thank you for reading:
https://youtu.be/m8yaP_woyRc?list=PLre6LI5yV64jpqaPuI4MXW-C-HAxBznH1&t=55
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Since then, I've imported it to this site ↩︎
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If memory serves, I found the BlackBerry in a colleague's drawer, asked to borrow it, then used social engineering to get the IT team to set it up for me. Fun times! ↩︎
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And how little I've changed. ↩︎
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The cool thing is I pretty much did launch that idea and its still there jiscinvolve.org/wp/
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Looks like I'm about a year behind you
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