I didn’t have a post on Wednesday, which I’m calling my “official” blogiversary, but it’s time to look back a bit. As I mentioned last time, November 21 is the tenth anniversary. November 25, 2004 was my first photo posted on flickr, but I’d completely forgotten that November 26, 1999 was when I bought davespicks.com until I got a note from ip:House about the automated renewal for that. So there’s another significant date, right around Thanksgiving.
I suspect part of the reason for the cluster of dates in late November is precisely due to Thanksgiving. While Thanksgiving proper is generally full of food, the rest of the weekend is generally pretty slow for me (unless I leave the country). I have time to sit around and play on the web and this weekend has been no exception. More so than just about any other time of the year, since I’m not one for heading to the stores to go nuts shopping, but the weather is usually chilly enough that I don’t do a lot of outdoors things.
I don’t remember for sure, and don’t have the initial email anymore, but I think it was also around this time of the year that I got my first presence on teh intarwebs back in 1995. It was definitely in the fall when Kate & I walked into the best.com storefront in Palo Alto Mountain View and bought accounts. The wayback machine didn’t get around to noticing me until 1999, but it’s still got a snapshot.
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- This year was also the second annual Thanksgiving Weekend Twi-night Photowalk. I took 40-some photos, of which I’ve already posted eight. Maybe a couple more to come, but that’s going to depend on whether I can rescue some marginal photos using Photoshop or not. We’ll see.
- Looking back through my logs, the Magical Macintosh Key Sequences page I put up is still the most popular single page on my website, except for the front page, in spite of having gone three years without an update, but Why avoiding tables (for layout) is important has hung in there, getting about a quarter as many hits, even though it’s largely a moot issue at this point. My page of Quotes I like is next up on the list, and I’m thinking that gets a lot of juice just because of the sheer volume of quotes I’ve collected. And then there’s Mead Made Easy, which still draws a fair number of visitors, including some new friends over the years, and it’s helped reconnect me with some old friends I’d lost touch with. It was just a couple weeks ago that I got an email from a guy I went to high school with, asking about mead. Finally, I’m not sure why exactly (might be the pictures), but July 2002 is the most popular month in the archives. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised by the fact that most of the single day archives around here aren’t all that popular — after all, they’re designed to send people away, rather than drawing them here.
- Speaking of anniversaries, congrats to Dan and Charlene for filing jointly, or as I prefer to think of it, “committing adulthood.” Mazel Tov! kids! [flutterby]
- Jeff Bezos is Reinventing the Book? Well, damn. Why did I just spend multiple thousands on new bookcases? Oh yeah, because I like reading without having to worry about the batteries dying mid-book. [metafilter]
- These Conditions of Sending Email are designed to trump the legalistic signatures some people put in all their email. While I like the idea of sending such conditions as part of the connection stream of an SMTP server, it’s just another obnoxious EULA that there’s no real chance to disagree with. And while I like the idea of twitting the people who stick such sigs on their emails even more, I’m not so sure I agree with the tactics. [boing boing]
- As if a hangover wasn’t bad enough (and they can be plenty bad), now there are reports of binge-drinking induced 'exploding bladders’. They were formerly almost exclusively a male problem, but the ladies seem to be catching up. Go equality? [metafilter]