I was digging around my room trying to find my NHS medical card when I came across a piece of paper with a list of old passwords on it (not an unusual find - I must have hundreds of these lying around). But the top one said "blogger" with a username and password sat beside it.
Considering work has just started a work blogger and various friends there are beginning to become interested in the whole thing I though that maybe I'd see if I could log in. I'd been toying with the idea of starting up a blogger for a while now. You see, I have my more private journal and while there is nothing there that's public that I'd mind people I know seeing, I kinda like it being separate from my real life. But I've wanted a journal of sorts on my webpage for ages. I had considered writing my own software - something that I did a long time ago (just as I gave up using this blogger), but embedding an rss feed from here seems so much simpler.
It's very weird to find I still have this blogger lying around. It wasn't published or anything because back then you had to pay to get it hosted. The only way to have a blogger for free was to have it ftp to another site; I used my DALnet website at the time and then I think I switched over to ftping it to my lycos page. The DALnet page is long dead (they stopped giving away home pages and besides, I haven't been a regular on DALnet for years - much to my regret) and lycos has been superceded by a paid-for package. The last of the big spenders: I pay £4.70 a month for a decent host rather than putting up with lycos' shit.
It was most interesting reading my past blogger entries because they cover an interesting period of my life, although it may not seem like it if you read back a bit.
We were both unemployed, money was tight and our only joy was the ability to go to the cinema virtually constantly. I was still doing things like roleplaying and ircing - things that I do miss. But I was poor and bored most of the time. It's not surprising that I through myself into things like blogging and my website. Two things that have definitely been an influence on my over these past three to four years. But the thing of most importance that this blog covers is perhaps the scariest night of my life. The night when a fire started in the flat downstairs. It doesn't come across as scary as it was; I wrote a very quick summary about it. Probably because I was telling people on IRC about it. But yes, it was scary and I'm glad I have some written record of it.
Shortly after I stopped blogging here I got a job. I've been employed almost solidly since March 2002 with one change of jobs. I'm now a home owner with all the pros and cons of that. I'm beginning to take a charge of my life finally and I'm enjoying it for the most part. There are highs and lows and it's been difficult at times. But I'm still here and able to reflect on my life with some positive thought. I throw myself into things like blogging or playing around with Linux, just like I used to back then, but I think I do it differently now. I don't know. I've certainly changed. And yet, I've stayed the same.
I'm still a wannabe computer geek.
Considering work has just started a work blogger and various friends there are beginning to become interested in the whole thing I though that maybe I'd see if I could log in. I'd been toying with the idea of starting up a blogger for a while now. You see, I have my more private journal and while there is nothing there that's public that I'd mind people I know seeing, I kinda like it being separate from my real life. But I've wanted a journal of sorts on my webpage for ages. I had considered writing my own software - something that I did a long time ago (just as I gave up using this blogger), but embedding an rss feed from here seems so much simpler.
It's very weird to find I still have this blogger lying around. It wasn't published or anything because back then you had to pay to get it hosted. The only way to have a blogger for free was to have it ftp to another site; I used my DALnet website at the time and then I think I switched over to ftping it to my lycos page. The DALnet page is long dead (they stopped giving away home pages and besides, I haven't been a regular on DALnet for years - much to my regret) and lycos has been superceded by a paid-for package. The last of the big spenders: I pay £4.70 a month for a decent host rather than putting up with lycos' shit.
It was most interesting reading my past blogger entries because they cover an interesting period of my life, although it may not seem like it if you read back a bit.
We were both unemployed, money was tight and our only joy was the ability to go to the cinema virtually constantly. I was still doing things like roleplaying and ircing - things that I do miss. But I was poor and bored most of the time. It's not surprising that I through myself into things like blogging and my website. Two things that have definitely been an influence on my over these past three to four years. But the thing of most importance that this blog covers is perhaps the scariest night of my life. The night when a fire started in the flat downstairs. It doesn't come across as scary as it was; I wrote a very quick summary about it. Probably because I was telling people on IRC about it. But yes, it was scary and I'm glad I have some written record of it.
Shortly after I stopped blogging here I got a job. I've been employed almost solidly since March 2002 with one change of jobs. I'm now a home owner with all the pros and cons of that. I'm beginning to take a charge of my life finally and I'm enjoying it for the most part. There are highs and lows and it's been difficult at times. But I'm still here and able to reflect on my life with some positive thought. I throw myself into things like blogging or playing around with Linux, just like I used to back then, but I think I do it differently now. I don't know. I've certainly changed. And yet, I've stayed the same.
I'm still a wannabe computer geek.
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