It’s been seven years. Seems like a long time, and yet like it was just yesterday that I started writing on this Intarweb thingie. Heck, it was November of 1995 when I put the first copy of Mead Made Easy on the web. So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice. One more year, and I’ll have had stuff on the web for a full ten years, and will have been actively blogging for eight. I went daily in January 2002, after going twice a week in September 1999.
While it sometimes feels good that I’m getting almost four thousand page views per day, for almost forty-five hundred different pages every week (of the about seven thousand total here on the site) from over seventy-three hundred distinct machines per week, those really aren’t huge numbers. I find myself wondering why I keep this up, especially since I seem to spend more time on daily things and less on adding new content to the non-weblog parts of the site. I spend a couple hours every morning reading various sites and updating the links around here, and wonder if that time wouldn’t be better spent going out and doing things worth writing about instead.
Anyway, that’s the thoughts this morning as I look back. The weather has finally changed and we’ve got a brilliant blue sunshiney day outside today, and I may try to get out and enjoy a bit of it before it’s time to park myself in front of the TV to see who wins the Winston Nextel Cup.
- In Things you find when checking referers, Susan notes that she’s been nominated for the Deutsche Welle Best of Blogs for having been writing since 1999. Now I think Susan’s probably a better writer than I am, but it’s still a little discouraging that I still don’t get noticed for having been at this forever.
- Was it a Rock ’n’ roll revival at First Ave on Friday night? Dunno. I missed the local news on the TV, and hadn’t thought ahead enough to tell the TiVo to snarf things up. But the club opened, and David de Young has a review, natch, and some additional comments, including a reminder of why the club will probably continue to be called First Attitude. [strib]
- One of the good things about heading to Mom’s on Saturdays is that I generally leave there around 2pm, and get to catch the last hour or so of the Northern Alliance Radio Network on the radio on the drive home. Yesterday they were talking about the proposed leaf-blower ban in Minneapolis, and asked for people to call in suggesting other bans. I called in and suggested a ban on warning labels.
If you don’t think that McDonald’s coffee might be hot, or think that a dry-cleaning bag is a good toy for your kid, well….
It got a laugh.