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I started this blog on May 12th of this year... Mother's Day. I used to have this website (13th Stone) that was bloggish in a Slashdot sort of way, but non-personal. I kept technical news entries and updates on patches or RPM updates... shit like that... anyhoo, the site became hard to maintain over time and I felt myself slipping. I would not update as frequently or would lean towards venting my personal opinions rather than just posting "the facts". So, I stopped. It was right about the time that I decided to no longer maintain 13thstone.com that I had some serious server issues. I switched platforms, upgraded OS, hardware, etc. and decided that if I were to ever restore my databases, I would continue with a more informal format that consisted of me writing about what I wanted to write about and not relaying third party information. Even though this existed only in a loose plan, I had discovered blogging and never even knew it. While I fumbled through getting my mail server and name server up and functioning again, I surfed a bit here and there and started seeing weblogs that linked to other weblogs that linked to other weblogs... and realized that this was exactly the sort of thing I was thinking about and there was a electronic subculture already in existence that could guide my efforts in setting it up. So, rather than using vi and ftp to put my thoughts into Net space, I found out about different tools that are common knowledge in the blogging community, but were completely foreign to me. Originally using Blogger and having no commenting capability, I jumped in with both feet and started typing. Now, after migrating through 3 publishing tools and 2 commenting systems and 212 days later, this is my 1000th post... that averages to 4.77 posts per day. Maybe I post too much, but it's been a great way for me to put my thoughts down in a archivable, journaled format that is easily accessible. I started writing just for me and continue to write for me, but I value the comments and feedback of the visitors to my site too. I go through stages in my writing... sometimes humorous, sometimes emotional, sometimes creative, mostly crap... but it's something that I've grown to love doing. I don't know how long I'm going to keep blogging, but I just wanted to share that these first 1000 posts (to me) have been worth each keystroke.