Incoherent ramblings of a 40 something year old man
Internet history, a personal time machine
A few days ago I rediscovered an old LiveJournal (remember those?) blog that I used to have. Last post 2005. It's rare these days to find something that still exists from that long, that isn't part of the Internet Archive & The WayBack Machine. There's not much, with broken image links (although…
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Turning 40, the new 30, or whatever.
This year I turned 40. And honestly, I still can't decide if this is a big deal or not. I think for everyone out there it's common to look at the same significant birthdays, 18, 21, 30, 40, 50 and so on. Even our anniversaries beyond the first few start to go into your 'big ones' and culturally me…
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Writing and turning the page
I've had this domain for over 20 years. Even back then, the .com was already taken and so probably was the co.uk and I remember being so frustrated that even in the early days of the internet (I probably first got online in '97) that it was so hard to get your name as a username anywhere.Hotmail, G…
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