Now We Are One
I forgot to mention that Saturday marked the one year anniversary of my weblog. When I made my first tentative (and rather embarrassingly angry-sounding) post, I wasn’t sure if weblogging was going to be something I could stick with (having already abandoned Sci-Fi Hi-Fi Mark 1). In fact, my old friend Josh used to taunt me no end for my nerdish leanings (“Why don’t you write that in your journal,” he would say), and I did (and still do) often question my reasons for writing.
Nonetheless, here it is a year later, and I’m still going. Not only that, but Josh himself (after discovering that several writers he admires have weblogs) has made noises about jumping on the bandwagon (and he really should, because he’s a great writer). While the business of keeping the site updated has consumed an awful lot of my time, I consider it to have been extremely rewarding, since it has left me with a record of a milestone year in my life, and has connected me to a great many interesting people I never would have known otherwise (one of these days I really need to try out Tantek Çelik’s fancy new XFN idea and start a blogroll).
Thanks to everyone who has stuck with me over the last year—your readership means a lot to me. I promise to stop with the vacation photos and get back to posting semi-useful information soon.
In the meantime, here are my favorite 15 posts so far (in chronological order):
- Apple Must Develop a Digicam: I still believe this.
- F*** the Mainstream: Shareware is dead, long live shareware.
- Anti-Americanism Up Close: An innocent abroad.
- Blizzard!: My last winter in Colorado was one to remember.
- You Say You Want a Revolution: The evolutionary iTunes music store.
- Two Hit Singles and…: The death of the album format, and why you shouldn’t care.
- Driving in Europe: Chronicles one of the worst things to happen to me in 2003.
- Cupertino Bound: New job, new state.
- Vanishing Point: Interstate 80 is a harsh mistress.
- California Adventure: A day on Highway 1.
- NSString+Templating: One of the more useful ideas I’ve had in awhile.
- Winter in the Bay Area: How I learned to love California.
- 2003: Ripped, Mixed & Burned: My favorite music of the year.
- Happy New Year: Or, how the Grinch stole Hogmanay.
- 100 Megatons in Your Pocket: Somebody set British Airways up the bomb!