08th Apr 2004
A Year Later
Two things happened this morning: I realized “hey, I’ve been writing this blog for a year”, and then I discovered I had inadvertantly wiped out one of my first posts.
I started this blog March 28th, 2003. Happy Belated Birthday, JavaJoint.
How did I wipe out a post? Well, I was deleting a comment spam, and somehow the comment itself (”nice site”) ended up being the main text of The Pledge. Undoubtedly some sort of Movable Type wierdness.
But that’s why I keep backups :-)
Looking back at my original pledge post, I managed to stick to my goals pretty well. There was one post (out of 150+) that I removed, to avoid ruffling feathers close to me.
I would have liked to have shown more photos, and to have evolved the template/look of this site further by now.
So a re-pledge of sorts seems like a good thing to do. Some ideas for this next year:
- I will limit my editing to corrections and updates. There’s always the chance that I could be kidnapped, drugged, and forced to write something stupid and untrue like “George Bush is a Rhodes Scholar”, in which case I will yank the post as soon as I am able.
- I’ll reach out to other bloggers, photobloggers, writers, photographers, and techie/creative types - checking their stuff out, and inviting them to drop by my site - more links to others. More social, less hermit.
- Photos will be served up by FlexiPhoto, giving me a lot more, uh, flexibility in how I present images.
- ThereThen addresses will get tied into this blog, and to FlexiPhoto. This will open up searching by location and time pairs.
- I’ll probably swear more. After all, I do live in New York City a good deal of the time. You know, Al Franken swears a lot in his wonderful book “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right”
- I have resisted the urge to split the blog between a more “professional” set of subjects, and the bits I do that are more “stuff that I observe, or that happens, or …” Psst <come here, wanna tell ya something> … it’s because I’m too lazy to maintain two or three blogs. No, it’s not laziness. It’s time. Perhaps I’ll include a “poker-faced, dead serious” type of keyword, and a “lighten up, have a beer” keyword. Some sort of virtual fork in the road or reading.
If you’ve read this from time to time over the last year, thanks!
