Happy Birthday to Me 2
As of today, this blog has spent 17 years chronicling the decline of the American polity.
Of course, that was not the original intent.*
But that seems to be what it has become.
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*The original intent was to simply self-host a website from a server in my guest room and learn stuff because I could, after an acquaintance told me that, by using Linux, I could self-host my website. I moved my existing website from members.aol.com to my home web server, one of the original IBM Pentiums which a coworker had given to me, and, on a whim, I added a blog. I brought the site live from my guest room with the help of noip.com on Slackware v. 10.x 17 years ago today.
Of course, I no longer self-host, and the blog is all that remains of my original site, as the rest of it became so outdated as to be no longer relevant to anything. But I shall keep the blog relevant . . . .
August 28, 2022 at 7:31 pm
17 years? We aren’t going to last 17 hours, man! – RIP Bill Paxton!
Certainly it started years ago with Tricky Dick but, post 9/11 the Republican Party has rushed headlong through the accretion disc of authoritarianism towards the Naked Singularity of Fascism.
Keep up the good work but, don’t let the rightwing madness infect your joy!
August 28, 2022 at 9:35 pm
I must say, I find optimism difficult.
And then there’s climate change.
I’m glad I’m old, and I fear for my grandchildren.