That was when I started blogging 3372 days ago. Blogging was so new back then the tag I used was "weblog" instead of the newer word "blog". Web 2.0 was all the rage. The term Ajax, as it pertains to web programming, was not even coined yet.
At the hight of my blogging career I was producing 24 posts a month. And now it has dwindled to 0 or 1 a month. Most of my colleagues who once blogged have stopped putting out new posts years ago.
In case you haven't figured it out, I'm pretty slow in abandoning old habits. I went to the brick-and-mortar BlockBuster store last week. I still subscribe to a few NNTP news groups in my Thunderbird. I wrote probably the world's last Windows 3.1 device driver, in 2006, 11 years after Windows 95. And my plan was to keep this blog up forwver.
A couple of weeks ago, I had a DSL outage that took the DSL company four days to resolve. And when service was finally restored, the speed is below 1M, not enough to view online videos. All of a sudden that 30M Charter service looks pretty promising. And I'm going to switch to it.
And there is a chance that this blog might not resurface on the other side of the switch over.
It's always to see an old friend go like this. And it won't be the first time when I was a little emotional about such things.
I thank Eric Burke (whose blog I linked to all the time but all of those links become 404s some years ago) for introducing me to the concept of blogging. I thank simon Brown for writing the Pebble blogging software that I've used since version 1.1. And I thank all the new friends I've met through this blog. It's been fun.
As for material on this blog that you may still want to reference, I trust that the old saying "once on the internet, always on the internet" will keep them somewhere where a Bing search can find them.
If not, you can always get to me through Twitter. There is no easy way for me to figure out when I started using Twitter. The first mention of Twitter on my blog was in 2008. So I should be still on Twitter by, say, 2018, even if everyone else has found the new best thing. Wouldn't a site just like Twitter but allows 280 characters per message do better than Twitter?
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