I started blogging on Typepad on November 23, 2004. It was just over nineteen years ago was about the new Windows computer I had just bought after working nearly twenty years at Apple.. I had been using Radio software for blogging but I found it limiting compared to Typepad so I switched and somewhere along the Radio died and I stayed with Typepad even while expanding to other platforms and sites that I manage myself.
For a number of years I did a post on View from the Mountain every morning. Some were short, others far too long for the average reader. I found early on that writing helped me figure out complex problems and often remove some of the emotion from the situation. While my Applepeels blog here on Typepad had a huge following back when people were more interested in arguing about computers than politics, the size of the audience never mattered.
I sometimes think I just wanted to write down things so I could more clearly "remember" them. For whatever reason, I am still writing and some folks are still reading so with luck perhaps I can make it to the twentieth anniversary of the blog.
If you look at the unfinished but extensive index, you see quickly that this has never been a single topic blog. It has always been whatever pops into my mind. That's not likely to change at this point.
Several years ago I tried to come up with a list of favorite posts. It was a feeble effort but the best that I could do at the time. I now tend to post some of my longer articles at my Oracokewaves.me blog. I feel like I have more control there.
If you are reading this, I want to offer my sincere thanks. If you have been reading for several years, I trust you have enjoyed what I happen to write.
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