This Blog is Six Years Old

The return of this blog to its regular “look and feel” heralds two things, namely:

• The complete archives, with entries going all the way back to November 10, 2001, are back online
• This blog had its sixth anniversary on Saturday!

Of all the hobbies that I’ve taken up over my 40 years (I still feel weird saying that), only the accordion has been as bizarrely rewarding as blogging. Through this blog, I have:

• Landed a job
• Avoided some serious girl trouble
• Convinced a cute girl in Boston that I was a stand-up guy (she read the archives as a form of background check)
• Met a great number of people
• Landed some television and newspaper appearances
• Improved my writing
• Established my reputation (or notoriety, take your pick)
• Broadened my social and professional horizons
• Had a lot of fun

I have to extend a special “thank you” to my friend Cory Doctorow, who convinced me to start my own blog and who over the years has sent me a lot of link love from the most powerful blog in the known universe.

To my readers, thanks for coming here all these years. There’s some interesting stuff to come, so please keep visiting!