Ten years ago today, I posted [my first blog post](http://flyingsquirrel.ca/squirrel/archive.php?article=1).
Okay, technically, that was on my old, hand-coded blog, and I’m lame even after almost 4 years, I haven’t imported my old blog into this one, but woo! 10 years!
Equally technically, I was posting something like blog posts on my old homepage, starting around 1998 or so. They weren’t archived or anything, I’d just insert a couple paragraphs between <hr> tags on whatever I happened to feel like writing about at the time, replacing whatever was there before. No, not a blog, but my blog was an extension of that.
My ideas about blogging have changed quite a bit. I originally wanted a place I could write anonymously about whatever I felt like. Then I decided that blogging anonymously was horribly pretentious and nobody actually cared. Now I’ve got [Twitter](http://twitter.com/flying_squirrel) satiating most of what used to drive me to blog. That’s my current excuse for why I don’t hang out here quite as much, anyway.
Ten years. That’s a long time.
[Neil Gaiman beat me by a week](http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/02/now-we-are-ten.html).
Hey!
Congratulations!
From humble beginnings (or even pretentious ones, if you like)… 10 years is a good run!
Here’s to another 10!
Congratz on 10 years :D
I wish I knew when I started, and still had those posts….
Great work.
I’ve been blogging for a long time too but only went public last year. Blogging just becomes a way of life after a while.
Twitter I’m not really getting.