Speaking of birthdays, this weblog is now approximately 2 years old (if you count the first real post I made). I started it because I wanted to develop my own content management system in PERL. For a while, it was hosted off my desktop using APACHE for Win. Then I jumped into the world of Linux, and I’ve been hosting it off my own server ever since (now using a homegrown PHP / MySQL setup). According to my friend Bob, who read my entire back archive this summer while bored at work, this weblog really gained its focus when I got the domain name and expanded my vision beyond just writing a weblog for the IU community.

Now at the 2 year mark, I’m going to try to lighten up a little bit and have some more fun. I realized recently that I wasn’t posting a lot because I was avoiding current event items (because I thought they wouldn’t make sense if people read the entries in the distant future). So what. The whole point of a blog (I think anyway) is to be current, otherwise why would anyone read it?

Thus, my new slogan is: “Use topically, repeat daily.”