On Friday, the 18th of January, 2002 I made the first post on my new domain, greyduck.net. I’d had a journal elsewhere before, but it was shut down after about a year. (Some of its posts survive here, mostly in the Thoughts category.)

As I posted the meme entry just below, I realized with a bit of shock that it was post #999. Now, the Monaural Jerk system in its earlier incarnations had some strangeness in its numbering scheme (it had to do with how media review entries were filed, I believe) but still… I’m now at the four-digit level. I’ve made just about one thousand actual posts.

By the by: I’d like to thank Matt McGlynn for the MJ system and his patient assistance over the years making this thing work in the bodged-up fashion I have here. Also, as of this post, I’ve changed my webserver configuration so that the clunky “/journal.php/”-based URL scheme is gone, in favor of just “/journal/”. (The old links still work, mind you, thanks to a symlink I made for backward compatibility.) This configuration matches what I set up for Lil’, and what Matt uses on debris.com. It’s a good time to make a clean change, wouldn’t you say?

In a way, I didn’t actually believe I’d get this far when I started. I’m an infamous dilettante, after all. I get started on something, all full of excitement, and then I get bored and move on. But I’m still here. Maybe, just maybe, there’s hope for me yet. Now I just need to learn how to post interesting content, eh?

Here’s to the next thousand. May they not be another three years in the posting!