Pun Salad

The first post on this blog was made on February 27, 2005, which makes it (counting on fingers and toes) twenty years old today.

I guess that counts as a milestone. I've dinked that first post over the years to reflect changing circumstances (like moving it off my workstation at the University Near Here to a commercial hosting site). The main tenets still apply:

• The content is whatever strikes my fancy, mostly (sigh) politics-related. Occasionally other interests show up.

• Although there are sub-blogs where I record books I've read, movies I've watched, and geek-related stuff.

• Ads here are simple image-links to Amazon products (as on your right); I get a cut when anyone buys something by clicking thereon. That sometimes happens, thanks. Occasionally, products vanish from Amazon. I try to fix that when I notice.

  Peeve: Even some sites I frequent have uglified themselves with intelligence-insulting clickbait ads. Even (sigh) Instapundit, my inspiration. ("The Video Obama Thought We'd Never Uncover"? I feel soiled by even typing that, Glenn.)

• No comments.

  Another peeve: I continue to think that blog-comments are "Usenet, reinvented poorly". (Apologies for the very dated reference.) People who want to comment on something they see here can and should do so on their own blog. Or how about Twitter/X/BlueSky?

• I used to have a list of blogs I read over there on the right. (No, your right.) I stopped doing that last June. Anybody miss it? No? Good.

• I am kind of geek-proud that the blog is (as near as I can tell) totally HTML5-compliant.

It's probably overoptimistic to think I'll be doing this for another twenty years. But I'll keep chugging along for now.