{"id":10876,"date":"2007-10-31T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/31\/missed-another-blogging-birthday\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T01:00:03","slug":"missed-another-blogging-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/31\/missed-another-blogging-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed another blogging birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been blogging for quite some time now.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been doing it even before it was called “blogging”.\u00c2\u00a0 I had my own website, a diary, and an online journal.\u00c2\u00a0 I started, as many others, with static HTML files and a text editor.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s how it used to be back than.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I wrote a shell script to simplify a few things.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I improved it.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I re-wrote it in Perl, adding a few features on the way.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I improved it more.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I re-wrote it again.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I found somebody else’s and modified it with my bits of code.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I plugged in something else.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I found another script for the picture gallery.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I found another one… And it went on and on and on.<\/p>\n

Then more and more people started having online diaries and software started to appear to make common tasks like editing text, inserting pictures, and linking to other pages easier.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve tried a few of those systems too.<\/p>\n

Each time I was moving the archives of the previous diary forward.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, at least, I tried to.\u00c2\u00a0 There were times when I was too lazy, or when I didn’t care enough, or when I wanted to have a fresh start.\u00c2\u00a0 Because of that, some entries are lost forever.\u00c2\u00a0 But there are still plenty of others.<\/p>\n

Looking at the archives of this blog, as they are now, the earliest entry<\/a> dates back to October 26th, 2001.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s 6 years<\/strong> ago.<\/p>\n

Lots of things happened to this blog during this time.\u00c2\u00a0 It did a few software changes and updates.\u00c2\u00a0 It was redesigned a few times.\u00c2\u00a0 The blogging style changed a few times as well. It was experimented on, broken, lost, and restored. But one thing never happened to it.\u00c2\u00a0 It was never abolished, lost and forgotten, left to die and rot.<\/p>\n

For the last 6 years there was not a single month when I haven’t written an entry for this blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Not one.\u00c2\u00a0 There were a few slow months with 1 or 2 or 3 entries.\u00c2\u00a0 There were periods of high activity with more than 150 posts a month (look at the year 2005, for example).\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve written a total of 3,842 posts<\/strong> which averages to 53 posts a month (3,842 posts divided by 72 months).<\/p>\n

As far as I can see, this blog isn’t going to disappear any time soon.\u00c2\u00a0 It runs on the best blogging engine out there (WordPress, but not the latest version yet).\u00c2\u00a0 It got re-designed again recently.\u00c2\u00a0 And there are more things to blog about than ever.<\/p>\n

So, here is the toast, for a happy blogging birthday<\/strong>! :)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been blogging for quite some time now.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been doing it even before it was called “blogging”.\u00c2\u00a0 I had my own website, a diary, and an online journal.\u00c2\u00a0 I started, as many others, with static HTML files and a text editor.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s how it used to be back than.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I wrote a shell … Continue reading Missed another blogging birthday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8387,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/28\/lj2mail\/","url_meta":{"origin":10876,"position":0},"title":"lj2mail","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 28, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"With this script I will terrorize my friends from today onwards. 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