Quotulatiousness

May 10, 2012

Eight years of blogging

Filed under: Administrivia, Media — Tags: — Nicholas @ 00:02

In the fast-paced world of blogging, where sites go dark in mere weeks or months, a blog reaching the venerable age of eight is a bit of an achievement (if only of persistence). Why do I still do it? Damned if I know … but if I haven’t published at least a few posts by mid-morning I feel like I’m slacking. It’s certainly not for the fame or fortune: it’s probably harder to become rich and famous through blogging than in many other fields, but to compensate it requires less talent.

Eight years ago, a fellow writer set up his own blog and invited me to set up my own blog on his site. Jon stopped blogging (far too soon, in my opinion), but allowed me to maintain my blog on his site for over five years and still graciously hosts the archives from that period. I probably wrote more and quoted less in the early days, but it’s now hard to remember what I did online before I became a blogger.

I did a retrospective round-up of the first year for the 2010 anniversary, and I collected the “best of 2005” for last year’s anniversary post. I guess this year requires a look at what I posted in 2006 (and may still have some relevance or interest):

January, 2006

February, 2006

March, 2006

March was a particularly fraught month with serious work deadlines, followed by a vacation at a hotel that didn’t offer internet access, then a debilitating cold, and a business trip. As a consequence, blogging suffered a sharp drop in output.

  • Daunte Culpepper traded by Vikings? It may well have been the right decision, but it ushered in the quarterback-by-platoon era that lasted until 2011 when the Vikings finally drafted Christian Ponder.
  • Will MPAC be reined in? I’d documented our run-in with the folks at MPAC in 2004 and 2005. Others were having much worse experiences.

April, 2006

May, 2006

  • Oil prices. Examining implication “that Canada wasn’t considered a “well-established liberal democracy”! And the Fascists [had] only been in power for a few months!”
  • Conspiracy theory top 10 list, where the polarity of currently popular theories is highlighted.
  • The play’s the thing. Visiting the youth theatre group we used to work with in Stratford, being able to watch the stage combat without worrying intensely (I used help out with basic fight choreography).
  • A possible answer … to the question of why we have troops in Afghanistan (on the life and death of Captain Nicola Goddard, RCHA).
  • Doors. It took a few months, but there was finally more woodworking progress to report.
  • Mid-century comic books. From early comics to blaming NASA for the suspended animation of the space program in a few short sentences.
  • The mystery of “Canadian Content” rules. I didn’t like ’em then, and I don’t like ’em now. But if you’ve got rules, at least try to have them make some kind of sense.

June, 2006

July, 2006

August, 2006

September, 2006

October, 2006

October was another light-blogging month, as my employer of the time had been taken over and we were all busy trying to be seen to justify our continued existence on the payroll. Mid-month, along with most of my department, I got a termination notice.

November, 2006

December, 2006

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