Mike Raiford wrote:
> Lance Birch wrote:
>> Rune wrote:
>>> "Lance Birch" <-> wrote:
>>>> I may as well chime in too; my blog hasn't moved (still at 
>>>> http://thezone.firewave.com.au ), but now finally has RSS for those 
>>>> that don't want to keep checking if it's been updated (ha, as if 
>>>> there is anyone doing that!).
>>>
>>> You had that blog before the word blog was even used. :) 7 years and 
>>> running is pretty impressive by blog standards i think...
>>
>> Heh, I guess that's true.  I remember when the word "blog" appeared 
>> and I thought it was silly (and to be honest, I still do).  I prefer 
> 
> I think blog was actually a contraction of "Web Log" long ago, in a far 
> away land, I kept a web log in regard to a program I wrote, and some 
> add-ins to an artificial life simulator I was very involved in at the time.

Yes that's right, "web log" => "weblog" => "blog", which is part of the 
reason I've never liked the term, heh.  It seems a bit silly to join and 
shorten the result - "blog" doesn't sound very elegant to my ears. 
Never-the-less, that's what we're stuck with now ;)

>> And that brings up an interesting question - should I load the old 
>> entries in?  I've been pondering that recently.  They have very little 
>> value to anyone, I think, and really everything prior to 2005 could 
>> probably go too, as that's when I started regularly posting photos.
> 
> Maybe for the sake of completeness, could also be interesting for the 
> readers. I dunno, unless it's just a string of daily banalities, then 
> I'd just let them go.

That's pretty much what they are... in fact most of it, up until I started 
posting photos, has been that! (and even now some of them are, heh)

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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