Perhaps I should have used a smaller font, and possibly a light grey colour, to say that I am considering (note: considering) taking a break from this blogging thing. That this has not been a welcome announcement would be an understatement.
M at blog
After the outrage, threats on my person and pleas the most common question is why am I considering this and I’d not even a year old. This would be as good a time as any for a step into history.
Back Then
True, this blog was started precisely on January 1st 2005. I uploaded my 120th post last week.
The history has been chequered indeed. Right now am running on wordpress on my own domain.
Homo Sapiens
I used to be on blogger, and besides the annoying URL, flexibility was acutely wanting.
Homo Erectus
What you may or may not know is that Thinker’s Room did not come to life this year, nor was it a blog when it came into existence. It was a webzine of sorts that came to life in mid 2001. Yes, 2001. The first couple of issues are forever lost (didn’t occur to me to archive them) but the first archived issue is me “Venting on the rain and Kenyans, and a thoroughly unfair look at family ties” in Nov 16 2001. After a run of 4 years I decided to go the blog earlier this year way chiefly because:
- It was a considerable pain to do updates, because I quite literally had to do everything – layout, design, content, etc
- It was rather hard to get feedback
Homo Habilis
What still fewer of you know is that before Thinker’s Room I had something else online in 1999. And no I’m not giving you the URL for love or for money, but here is a doctored screenshot. If you remember it keep it to yourself! This is what actually got my feet wet with regards to this whole online business, in the good old days when there was no Google and the biggest online names were Yahoo and Excite
Australopithecus
What even fewer of you know is that my first online anything was way back in 1997 when I did some work for a company called Form-Net, that now I think is called KenyaWeb.
This means that I have been online in some way or the other for some 9 or so years.
Of Blogging
I’ve been asked repeatedly why I blog. I’ve thought about it myself on occasion, and explored the web a bit to see why people blog. Or rather what they say when asked why they blog.