19 Years Outside My Window

writing with a pen (photo from Wikimedia Commons) 9 November 2026 Nineteen years ago today, 9 November 2007, I posted the first blog article of my blogging “career.” A “flamboyance” of 19 greater flamingos kicks off the celebration. 19 adult and juvenile greater flamingos, wading in Pallikaranai Marsh, Tamil Nadu, India (photo by Timothy A. Gonsalves, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) And there’s cake (not mine) which celebrated 19th years of Wikimedia Serbia in December 2024. 19th Birthday of Wikimedia Serbia, Dec 2024 (photo by Gorana Gomirac (VMRS), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) As of this morning I’ve written 7,019 articles but only a few are widely read. Here are three popular articles in the past 12 months in reverse time order. 3 November 2026 Just last week I wrote Insects Don’t Swarm at LED Lights because they are attracted to ultraviolet light. Incandescent emits UV but LEDs doesn’t. A few commenters said I’d got the facts backwards so today I triple-fact-checked…

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