I see from various posts that today begins the slew of Editthispage.com birthdays for people, including me: (trust Andrea to have the most comprehensive list!) Jeff Al Mike and Scott
I was thinking that John of View from an Iowa Homestead had an anniversary, but his began Dec 22 from what I can tell. For that matter, so did Garrett
To see others that got an early start, check out the Scripting News archive for December 1999 (Scroll down to news on the 5th and 6th). Congrats to Dave Winer and the present and former people of UserLand for getting things rolling, and to other Blog-tool makers and add-on technology that's come down the pike in the last 4 years.
Four years? Wow. The first thing that comes to mind for me is January of 2000, when I got my blog-writing muscles started, writing A Lake George Diary about my visit with my then-99-year old grandfather. That was nearly 4 years ago? The time, it do fly.
Just last night, I asked my boyfriend something about Wolfgang Pauli (of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, where no two things can occupy the same space at the same time, a law of physics that pertains to my messy house and organizational dystopia. I actually did a public reading about that last night through a writing/performance workshop that has itself celebrated a 4-year anniversary. But I digress.) I said, "Is Wolfgang Pauli a Deutscher?" He said "yes" and then I thought about how I picked up that phrasing from Grandpa.
The day before my grandpa died, the occupational therapist handed him her name tag and asked him to read it. (It was, I assume a name of German extraction). He did so and asked, "Are you a Deutscher?" She said, "I'm not Dutch!" They proceeded to have a conversation about how he was feeling, which led to an exchange over adjectives and adverbs (good is an adjective, well is an adverb), with Grandpa doing all the instruction.
Well, how this post meandered from noting a 4-year blogiversary to me telling (wistfully) stories about Grandpa is, I suppose, a prime example of the meandering nature of blogdom. Or not.
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