It appears that it’s the fourth B-day of this blog. Fired up May 17, 2001.

Four years and almost 300 posts of unread drivel.

Let’s celebrate!

Actually, four years is a significant for a blog by a nobody; I was an early adopter, I guess.

While I had no real expectations going into this grand experiment, I have accomplished the following blog-worthy events over the past 1000+ days:

• Added on-the-fly skinning for the site (see the Theme links in side rail)
• Built my own RSS feed (scrapes the site on regular interval via my home Linux box)
• Built and incorporated a picture gallery, including a picture of the day (see side rail)
• Built and incorporated a Top Ten list (hey, everyone loves lists…)
• Built and incorporated a Reviews section
• Built and incorporated a RSS aggregator on the site

Could I have done more? Sure.

Could I have done stuff better? Absolutely.

But this has all been a great learning experience; building all these tools in PHP/Perl/mySQL/cron and so on. This blog is a great platform to learn.

I even learn from myself – I’ve built these tools over the course of the last four years, and I’ll occasionally have to pry into the code to tweak this or that. When I do, I invariably think “Damn! I built this? Wow!” And I learn from what I’ve written in the past.

That works for me; that’s what I like.

Happy B-Day blog…