Tenth Anniversary

Ten years ago today, I posted [my first blog post](http://flyingsquirrel.ca/squirrel/archive.php?article=1).

Okay, technically, that was on my old, hand-coded blog, and I’m lame even after almost 4 years, I haven’t imported my old blog into this one, but woo! 10 years!

Equally technically, I was posting something like blog posts on my old homepage, starting around 1998 or so. They weren’t archived or anything, I’d just insert a couple paragraphs between <hr> tags on whatever I happened to feel like writing about at the time, replacing whatever was there before. No, not a blog, but my blog was an extension of that.

My ideas about blogging have changed quite a bit. I originally wanted a place I could write anonymously about whatever I felt like. Then I decided that blogging anonymously was horribly pretentious and nobody actually cared. Now I’ve got [Twitter](http://twitter.com/flying_squirrel) satiating most of what used to drive me to blog. That’s my current excuse for why I don’t hang out here quite as much, anyway.

Ten years. That’s a long time.

[Neil Gaiman beat me by a week](http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/02/now-we-are-ten.html).

3 thoughts on “Tenth Anniversary”

  1. Hey!

    Congratulations!

    From humble beginnings (or even pretentious ones, if you like)… 10 years is a good run!

    Here’s to another 10!

  2. Great work.
    I’ve been blogging for a long time too but only went public last year. Blogging just becomes a way of life after a while.
    Twitter I’m not really getting.

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