Today marks the two year anniversary of the Kaedrin Weblog. Its damn hard to believe it has been this long. In porting this thing over to Movable Type, I had the opportunity to read through almost every post I ever made. Some of the first are almost embarrassing. I started slow, mostly as a consequence of my host banning FTP, thus not allowing me to use Blogger (and I had only just discovered it!). Eventually, I figured out a manually intensive workaround, and got to posting full force. I think October of 2000 is really when the blog really began to resemble what it does today. By February 2001, I had purposely stopped linking to all the regular sources, and started searching, in earnest, for things a bit off the beaten path. I really kicked it into high gear in May and somehow kept it up until July. These were the months where I really came into my own, and they are the ones I am most proud of… I found original sources, played reporter for a few topics, linked to independant type stuff, and overall the quality was very high during those three months. One interesting aspect of them, I think, is their timeless quality. They’re just as relevant today as they ever were, though maybe I’m just being overly sentimental. You decide…
After that things petered out for a bit. All those entertaining links were difficult to come by, after all, and I began to slow down a bit. August wasn’t a bad month, but it wasn’t at the same level as the preceding months… Then came September 11… and things dropped off almost entirely, as I discussed below. I might add that at no point did the blog really find an audience beyone my loyal Kaedrin minions, and that might have played a part in my floundering. By the way, this doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate my loyal Kaedrin visitors, most of whom have been here since the beginning, when Kaedrin was little more than a place where I collected quotes and sound clips… They are what kept Kaedrin going all this time, and I truly, genuinely, appreciate their kindness and support. And so here we are, after two years, and a lot of links. Its been interesting. Heres to another two!
So, anyone have any favourite entries? Venerable praise, bitter criticism, adroit observations, astute suggestions, death threats? Lets give this new commenting system a workout, why don’t we?
I remember the initial blog vividly. Two years? Time flies. It seems like yesterday.
I thought I’d celebrate the birthday with a Russian army joke about a soldier who, in the peasant-cunning tradition, asks his
lieutenant, “Does a crocodile crawl or fly, sir?” “It crawls, you idiot,” the lieutenant replies. “But the colonel says a crocodile flies, sir,” the soldier answers. “Well, so it does,” the lieutenant replies hurriedly, “but very, very low.”
I have no death threats. but apparently I have lots of catch-up blog reading to do. 🙂