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27 years later

It started because I was noodling about with HTML and needed some ‘content’ (or ‘words on the page’ as I likely called it back then).

Last year I marked 26 years of this blog by writing:

It is odd to think of this blog through a different lens, I mean I know other people read it from time to time, but mostly it’s always been a way for me to think out loud, to share my thoughts into the void. That vain desire remains, still pushed by the one time someone said something I’d written helped them and by all the comments and discussions held back in the early days when we all had blogs because we had time for them…

My blog has long stopped being a focus for me, it’s not a priority, yet it remains and these days, that’s all it really has to do.

I find it interesting —because this is my blog, the hobby I’ve maintained all these years through all the changes my life has been through, so naturally I find it fascinating— that these past few months have seen a change in my own view of this blog. I’ve written about this already so I won’t go over the why, but it is an interesting (again, to me) observation that my own blog is still evolving after all this time.

A little more focus recently and I’ve started writing more thoughtfully about aspects of my life, and it’s nice to read comments and receive emails about posts that have had a positive impact on people. It’s not why I still do this, but ‘vain desires’ are so easily fed…

You’d think after 27 years of blogging I’d have something profound to say though, but I don’t and it took me a while to make my peace with that and take comfort in the fact that I don’t have proclamations to make —I do have some advice but you can take that or leave it— I have views and opinions, likes and dislikes just like any other human, but one thing I hope has come to the fore from the things I post here is that, for the most part, I’m tolerant; I see both sides of most arguments (but not all arguments), and for the most part I’m quite content just keeping on keeping on.

Hmmm… perhaps that is a small, quiet, proclamation in and of itself. Perhaps.

27 years of just keeping on keeping on.

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One response to "27 years later"

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June 2, 2026 at 7:19 pm

Very nicely said. And congratulations on the achievement — 27 years! Your words have had a bigger impact than you know, I’m sure. So many lurkers who read and absorb and learn, yet can’t quite drum up a reply. Keep up the good work.

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