Blogs Of My Elder
It’s happenstance and coincidence, but as I’ve again recently been speaking of blog anniversaries, I should note that today is the twenty-second such of my mother following me into the early blogosphere as it stood in November of 2001. She blogged there until June of 2002, when we moved her over to her own domain, the annual renewal of which effectively serves as her birthday present. All went well until February of 2004, when apparently my server must have had some sort of meltdown (this might have been during the time I was serving websites, including Portland Communique, from a custom-built OpenBSD box over my home DSL connection) and she briefly decamped back to her original blog until later that month when I must have sorted things out. My mother, in other words, consistently has been blogging in one place for two decades, whilst I (as you can see, albeit still only partially) demonstrated consistency only in regularly flailing from one domain, and often service, to another.