Or the beginning?
Hello from 2008! Well, not really. I'm writing this post in 2026, a bit over 18 years in the "future" but backdating it to serve as the most recent starting point of this blog. If you suddenly saw this post appear in your RSS reader, sorry! (But also: good for you, continuing to keep the RSS dream alive.)
Personally, 2008 was a really big year for me. I joined IMDb, I released my first full-length record Save You From Yourself, I joined Explone as bassist, I proposed marriage to my then-girlfriend (she said yes!) and all of this happened against the backdrop of the newly installed Obama presidency which gave the sense that good things were possible and happening.
Weird, I was just now tempted to put "spoiler alert" in front of this next bit, but it's not like anyone is actually reading this in 2008, lol.
I purchased this domain in 1998. It's undergone many changes: first as a home for my "web design" services (i.e. I could make you a website using tables and spacer GIFs), then as a hub for Dynamic HTML news and tutorials which basically allowed me to have a career of any sort, then again as the launchpad of my online music career, back when intentionally putting your music online was a radical idea. Post-2008 it becomes kind of a mess of music, tech, comics, and other things without much of a theme. Posting kind of slows down in the mid-2010s as social media begins to slurp the oxygen out of the blogging craze. As I write this in 2026, blogging is making a small, somewhat joyless comeback driven primarly by tech nerds with opinions on A.I.
Strewn across various hard drives is another decade of pre-2008 blogging content, going all the way back to pre-Movable Type days. I sometimes think about putting it all back online, but I was a completely different person back then and I don't relish the idea of rediscovering my terrible, uneducated takes and shoot-from-the-hip opinions, much less putting them back online for all to [re]discover as well.
So if you reached this post by paging back through over 18 years of content: congratulations! You're reached the end, or at least the end of what I'm willing to keep online for now.
Thanks for reading. :-)