Blogaversary 25

This blog, circa 2007. Happy Blogaversary to me! 2001 seems like a long time ago. I had tired of just reading about blogging and decided to try out some of the tools, some months before. But that summer I got into a habit of posting regularly, starting June 11, 2001. Partly inspired by the new ways of thinking I was learning in my classes on product design and business strategy at MIT, partly reflecting the changes in my life at the time, and partly looking to connect during what was a pretty lonely summer, the blog took off and started to be a real thing. Over the last year I’ve mostly just written. Lots of music writing, a few cocktails and other posts. I haven’t updated the design of the blog in years; it’s interesting to look back at the one truly hand-rolled theme I ever made, which was buggy but had its own charm. I’m not going to go back to wrestling with CSS any time soon, but I miss certain things about the look and feel (mostly the small caps). I also miss having the time to…