My memory is uncertain but I think I started blogging in 1999, which means I've been at this for a quarter-century this year. Nobody actually blogs anymore, at least not in the original sense. Not even me. I just do monthly postings to keep my writing muscles engaged. At the start I didn't have my own url. I just had some space allocated by my internet Provide.Net, so my page was something like www.provide.net/dmazz which was my personal allotted space on their servers. There were no blogging tools so I coded HTML by hand and made adjustments to pagination manually with every post. I got quite efficient at it. It was during that pre-Google era that my blog reached the height of its popularity when I managed to get listed in Yahoo's list of blogs. In alphabetic order A Dam Site was at the top of the page so anyone who searched for blogs saw mine first in the list. Had I been smarter and more foresightful I would have parlayed that into a tech empire. (Interestingly, provide.net still exists as some sort of specialty internet provider with a very reasonably priced fiber offering. I'm guessing they are a reseller/installer, but idk.)
In any event, we once again increment the year and I have an opportunity to reconfirm my new year's resolutions, which are really just my life principles.
Enhance the lives of the people I care about.
Fight sloth (the Deadly Sin, not the adorable forest creature).
I see no reason to change those.
[Rant] San Francisco State of Mind
[Michigan] Michigan State of Mind
