Ten years.
Ten years blogging.
Ten years wasting your time and mine.
I’m writing this post right now during an idle moment at
work in late June, so I can’t as of this writing give an official count of the
number of posts I’ve published.
Comments, now, tallying comments are easy. Meaningful ones:
Less than two dozen, and that’s being charitable. There was for a time I was on
the Random Translated from Chinese Comment Bot’s radar, but those moments have
long gone.
Purpose? Plenty of that. This blog will be a treasure-trove
to my descendants, providing any of them are interested and the Wayback Machine
still functions. I haven’t yet decided if I’ll deliver the username and
password to this blog to my descendants in my will, out of fear they’d take one
look at it and delete the whole thing.
I have also considered using one of those blog-to-book
services, however given their inability to capture linked material and to play
YouTube videos, their utility seems limited.
Perhaps, of course, I could hand my credentials over to my
estate, or the university library or presidential library to which I bequeath
my papers.
Or I could just go on babbling since NONE OF THAT IS EVER
GOING TO HAPPEN.
And to tell the truth, I have blogged before.
I started a blog briefly around a Thanksgiving break some
time before 2007, but the effort petered out and I have since lost track of it.
It’s in the blogspot/blogger blogosphere somewhere. Perhaps I might look for
it. (I’ve tried a few times to search for it, but it’s a tiny needle in an
ever-expanding Internet haystack, so I’ve given up finding it. Maybe you’d care
to look for it – I recall I began blogging in the 2003-2005 year range at the
time I was working at a local newspaper and thus hated writing with a passion.)
There were also copious amounts of blather posted while I
was a university student in the late 1990s. The year 1997 plays prominently in
my memory. So this should, by rights, be a 20-year anniversary post.
But I won’t brag up my credentials. Ten years of consistently
bland writing is enough to celebrate, is it not?
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