I wasn’t kidding about taking some days off. I just didn’t say whether or not they’d all be consecutive. 😉
The first time I posted something about Stephen Colbert was two weeks after starting this weblog,* during the second term of George W. Bush’s presidency. What an aggravating, time consuming struggle it was back then, capturing video and getting it to play online!
How long ago was that? For a reference, three weeks later, Google announced its intention to buy YouTube. Steve Jobs was four months away from introducing the iPhone.
Here we are today, twenty years later, and Colbert is in the crosshairs of the petty, childish, vindictive, and incompetent yet dangerous, President of the United States. Bush was only one of those pejoratives. Stephen is righteously pissed off, and he has every reason to be.
Here is the interview Colbert wasn’t allowed to air on broadcast television.
Everyone, myself included, underestimated Trump’s ability to succeed as a con man. Obama most of all, as Peter Baker writes about in one of his typically compelling and readable reports.
* dograt.com had been live since 2002, with a set of static web pages. They were written with Microsoft Front Page, along with some HTML manual editing.
Oh, that’s right. I left Total Choice because of its storage limit and moved to iPower.
No; “total choice hosting” where I’ve been since the beginning.
You’re on iPower? It’s now within Bluehost, owned by Newfold Digital. Don’t know if the migration to Oracle Cloud has happened yet.
Got me wondering, how long has my site been up? What I can find — we registered the domain back in Dec ’01, and the Wayback Machine’s first snapshot was on 10 Apr 2002. I’ve asked my hosting company when I first signed up, but haven’t heard back.