Five years ago today I made the first post on this blog. 828 posts later here we are.
The posting rate has varied enormously but averages one post every 2.2 days. It was highest when I was self employed and working from home and lowest after Facebook and Twitter started to eat up some of the shorter, quicker posts I could have made.
Around 700 of those posts have also appeared on the LiveJournal version of the blog (which generates more comments than the main version, 882 vs 392), and around 250 have appeared as notes in Facebook.
I’ve moved host once, upgraded WordPress countless times, but kept more or less the same look and feel.
I’ve learnt how to code with XSLT, JSP and jQuery. I’ve also moved house, changed job, been to Venice, Amsterdam, Vancouver and Dublin, bought a lot of dinosaurs and gotten married.
Wales have won the Grand Slam, twice. Doctor Who and Star Trek have both returned triumphantly. Tony Blair and George Bush have left the building.
It’s been a busy five years, and that’s a very true thing.