One year old today
Seeing John Quiggan’s achievement, I thought I would reflect on my own progress.
My first serious blog post is here. It was posted one year ago today as a plain HTML page.
Within a month, I had moved the blog from vanilla HTML to a page server model. For some four or five months the blog was served fresh to my customers by a Perl program I had cobbled together to interface with an SQL database. It was kludgy, limited in features, but it generally worked reliably. Best of all, it was Spam free.
I have since upgraded to the Wordpress platform. It is very reliable, and I spend very little time working on the software side of the blog (though I have written a couple of PHP plugins). My only regret is that Wordpress can be a Spam magnet.
I have been meaning to retro-upload the old blog, but I have not got around to it. It will happen sometime. But don’t hold your breath waiting.
Just for the record, the mothership is 9 years old this month. The mothership had it origins as a displacement activity from my then honours thesis.