Belated

Boy, what a lousy blogger am I. As part of my recent, er, sabatical from blogging, I completely missed my blog’s first Birthday. My first post was on Aug 14, 2003. Happy belated Birthday, Blog o’ mine.

The last couple of nearly-blogging-free months notwithstanding, I guess it’s been a good a first year. Nearly 175 posts in the first year. My current design may never win any awards, but it beats the original, and its successor. Along the way, I’ve added a few alternate stylesheets, upgraded my feed to RSS2.0, got everything (usually) to validate (html, css, rss). I switched from Textile to Markdown, added comments, added Markdown to my comments, and fought comment spammers. Most recently, I finally added a blogroll. I’ve made some new friends and linked to long time friends. Hopefully I’ve even managed to help people here and there – I’m (currently) still the top Google hit for “xemacs fink panther”, and my moreentries plugin for Blosxom has been used by a few people.

Here’s to another year. Thanks for reading.

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Posted September 9th, 2004 at 1:29 am 3 Comments »

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3 Responses to “Belated”

  1. Sean Says: September 8th, 2004 at 9:45 pm

    Happy Birthday

    Happy Belated Blog Birthday? It makes one wonder what do you give to the blog as a present? Maybe a “wrapping paper” style sheet?

  2. dugh Says: September 12th, 2004 at 1:14 am

    a year?

    has it really been a year? and here i thought you’d been at this at least as long as me, and longer! here’s to another full year. oh, and to sean: please don’t encourage him because, you know, he just might do it. :)

  3. Thanks Says: September 12th, 2004 at 1:22 pm

    Thanks…

    Thanks for the kind words. And yes, dugh, I just might- I killed an hour at lunch the other day trying to figure out how! The only reason I haven’t is because I wanted to do it CSS only (no xhtml change), but I couldn’t figure out how to get the effect I wanted without some extra divs. Still thinking though….