5 years and still blogging

August 2003 saw the start of this weblog. My first blog was in 2002 when I visited Denmark to do some work with my friend Lars, but when I shut that down after my travels I neglected to save the contents. So instead I will call this the fifth year of my blogging.

Who would have predicted that the SCO law suits I blogged about in that first month would still be going.

Perhaps more predictably, the Be company, blogged about in my second month, would go under.

Also predictably I have less time for blogging now that I have a "real" job and am also studying part time.

Thanks to everyone who ever commented and all my regular readers (I count 3 - am I missing anyone?). I enjoy writing, so you'll be sure to keep hearing from me well into the future.

I plan to list a few favourite posts a little later and thank some inspirations. Hey - any excuse!

07:52 PM, 09 Aug 2008 by Mark Aufflick Permalink

Feeds broken

Look's like your feedburner setup needs feeding, I get the updates but the links to your content don't work. Matt ;o)>

by Unregistered Visitor on 08/10/08

Fixed

Thanks Matt (regular readers += 1 ;) There were two problems. The first was that the links were relative not absolute. I didn't catch that when I tested the raw feed in Safari because it compensated. FeedBurner caught it as invalid, and ignored the urls. The second then was that there were some invalid utf8 characters in my feed which seem to have come from a bug in the FireFox 3 textarea, because every time I deleted them some additional ones popped up elsewhere in that post. I deleted them in Safari and all is well.

by Mark Aufflick on 08/10/08

Am I one of the three?

Just making sure I'm counted :-)

by Vinod Kurup on 08/16/08

Who's counting!

I miscounted a little - my best estimate at regular readers is: Kath, DB from TramTown, Vinod, russm, and Barnsey. There's about 60 RSS subscribers according to FeedBurner, but I assume that includes all the various feed bots that scrape the site (and occasionally stealing the content ... http://mark.aufflick.com/blog/2006/09/04/is-rss-republishing-stealing). I miss anyone?

by Unregistered Visitor on 08/17/08

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