1000 Posts

No, this post isn’t number 1000. I missed the actual milestone a few days ago as I hadn’t realised I was even getting close, and I don’t think it’s especially worth marking anyway. Still, it’s as good a time as any to look back over the almost 10 years of my blog and see how little impact any of the crap I’ve written has had. Shouting into an empty cave, innit.

I think, right back at the start, I wasn’t really sure what a blog was for. To be honest, I’m still not really sure, aside from it being somewhere to put words and pictures that otherwise would remain in my head – or worse, drop out someplace else. Back in those days we didn’t have Twitter so commenting on news stories and cats and pointless minutiae had to be done in blogs and forums, so a lot of my early posts were of that form. Photos of funny things or computer error messages, which now would mostly end up on Twitter also found a home here too, as did excited squarks when new games arrived in the post.

Over the years I’ve moved from Blogger to WordPress, and migrated MySQL backend a few times and upgraded WordPress more times and I can recall, and in the process there have been a few hiccups. In some old posts pound signs have been replaced with several gibberish characters, some old media embed code now no longer works, and the odd picture, video or link has dropped off the internet entirely. It’s a shame, but I don’t think I’ve lost anything important. Like there was anything important on my blog anyway.

I’ve never posted as frequently as I have this year so far though. Unless you count when I live-blogged my Wii launch experience. That was really a thing. Wow.

(Featured image is from here, is unmodified, and used under this licence)