2 years!!!
KeithHandy posted in Blogging on blogging on November 2nd, 2007
As of this coming tuesday, the sixth of november, it will be two years since I changed the default wordpress first post from “hello world” to hello squirrel, intending to delete it shortly thereafter, and never quite getting around to doing so.
So, like, the thing to do would be to say “happy second birthday, keithhandy.com”, except I’m sort of cheating, because I didn’t start posting here regularly until several months later. I tried to get some of my LiveJournal friends to continue reading me as I migrated, but apparently they were more in love with LiveJournal itself than any actual human beings posting on it.
It sucked to have to lose some readers, but I’m glad I made the leap. Now, after some time, I have new readers (some of whom vanish for weeks at a time, but eventually come back and catch up). I have a permanent, final destination to lead back to for any other social sites or blogs I participate in — an actual “presence” — and I feel like I can write to whoever in the world is interested, instead of a stagnant circle of friends with a known set of common interests. My posts are readable and searchable forever, and people still go back and read the older ones.
I’ve tried over time to make this site more helpful and inspirational for any of you that have a pet project or labor of love, and I’ve heard some encouraging feedback about my progress in that direction. But also, the site is becoming a central point of organization for my projects. Even though, at close range, I appear to jump from project to project without finishing anything… if you look over everything on this site to get a broader view, you can actually start to see my patterns, the relationships between my projects, and how I ultimately do get stuff done. You can start to connect the dots, in other words.
When you get a chance, go back to hello squirrel, and leave a dumb, meaningless comment. It doesn’t have to be about squirrels… but it doesn’t have to not be about squirrels either. You can say “happy birthday”, or you can just imply it. The main thing is that you take a quick trip back to 2005, and say, “hello, 2005″. It’ll be fun. You’ll have a good time.
Well, hey, it can’t possibly be any less fun than taking one of those LiveJournal quizzes.
