Excuse the silence here lately. My life is simply way too busy for reason at this time, which has severely interfered with my blogging. Between my job, my other job, and my board work and the rest of my life, something had to give.
Happy birthday to me
. This weblog – albeit in slightly different form – is two years old today! But the weblog format wasn’t my first incarnation on the web – this month also marks 6 years and 3 months since my first personal site went up. That original (ugly) site is available via the Wayback Machine.
There are now
three people blogging who use “mikel” in their name. There’s me, the always impressive Shmuel Mikel, and Micha (Mikel) Lewandowski from Poland, who keeps a weblog in his native Polish. My name, as I have written before, comes from the way my brother used to spell it when he’d leave me notes or whatever. I actually don’t spell my name that way in real life, I spell it the conventional way. But as my online life has pretty much merged with my real life, people seem to mix and match spellings now.
I wonder how many people
remember bOING bOING the magazine? It was wonderful, eclectic, fun. Back in the day, it was one of the things that heralded that something new was coming. I wasn’t sure what it was. But I think of it, and Mondo 2000, and a few others as this sort of canary in a coal mine in reverse. The atmosphere was changing, and instead of dying, this canary was thriving.
Anyhow, I love Cory Doctorow’s blogging over at boing boing the website. Cory’s one of those people I virtually bump into all the time, though we’ve never met. I went over to a great friend’s place once while I was in Ottawa, my friend who most closely approaches the ideal of the evil genius (though he’s not really evil at all). And he’s telling me about this new friend of his Cory… the same guy who I had asked that week (by email) about a DSL config problem I was having. Coincidence.
So anyhow I’ve been enjoying his and Mark Frauenfelder’s work/fun for ages now. And it bugs me a bit that somehow boing boing the website has seemingly become identified simply as Cory’s personal weblog. Cory has a personal site: it’s at craphound.com. Boing Boing is, as far as I can tell, a collaborative project including a weblog, a guestlog, and a directory, plus archives of Mark’s illustrations and lots of other fun stuff. To identify that with just one person is misleading and, I think, somewhat of an insult to the other contributors.
I’m sure I’m making too big a deal of this, but whatever. Misattribution has always gotten to me.
Happy New Year
everyone! A hearty thanks to everyone who reads mikel.org throughout the year. 2002 will feature the 2nd anniversary of this weblog and will also mark the 7th anniversary of my publishing a personal site on the web. Two things that will come in 2002: a new more flexible design with some enhanced services built in, plus I’ll be making a serious attempt to post occasional longer articles on something approaching a regular schedule.
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