With five years of blog posts, there's a lot to discover
Okay, I have a seriously souped-up blog now. Enjoy the random posts and the retrospectives on the Wordpress interface to this blog. If you click on a post, you'll see links to other posts I made on the same day in different years.
Why am I doing this?
Might be a little crazy to think about it, but I know I'll get a lot out of seeing where I've come from. If I stumble across questions I've asked or things I've reflected on, maybe I'll stop and think a little. If I can make more of my blog content available to Google, maybe I'll come across my old notes when I'm searching for something I don't even know I knew before. And who knows? Maybe I'll even figure out how to get this nicely sorted into a printed book for my mom. ;)
What about other people? What would you get out of this? Maybe random clicking around will help you get to know me. Maybe you'll like the things you read, maybe you won't. It's a chance I take. But if you're randomly clicking through slices of my life, you're probably friendly. =) And who knows, maybe one of these entries will make you think, and that thought will turn into other thoughts, and then you come up with a wonderful idea. Randomness is like that.
And if, while reading, you should happen to stop on an entry that catches your eyes, you may notice how different things are year to year, and how much stays the same.
=)
I wonder what the next five years will be like. Let's find out!
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Ate Sacha,
THIS IS SO COOL!!!
Will start re-reading your old posts ASAP.
You are EVIL. I will *never* get any work done with a 'random posts' function on your blog! Especially when I've only known you for 1 of the 5 years in this thing!
@Francis: You don't need to read *everything!* <laugh>
@Quinn: MWAHAHAHA! That's why the random posts box is above the fold. Enjoy. Is it the height of blogging narcissism that I enjoy flipping through random posts, too? I don't even remember writing these things…
Ate, is it narcissism if you write genuinely interesting blog posts?
Me, I kinda treat my blog as a bookmarking service, so I naturally enjoy re-reading my old posts (plus, I get to fix old typos).