HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY….To me. I’ve now been doing this for five years.

Sadly, you’ll just have to take my word for this since my early blogging on blogspot has apparently been sucked irretrievably down the memory hole. But August 22, 2002, really was when it all started for me. Honest. I think I’ll celebrate by having lunch.

UPDATE: Courtesy of the Wayback Machine, here are my first three days of blogging. Exciting stuff!

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