With the 17th anniversary of the blog coming up next month, I see the 5,000 mark has been crossed. Those aren’t as many posts as there are stars in the galaxy, but they’re more than I ever thought I’d do. This is post number 5,012, although there were actually more than that. A small number of them were deleted or hidden from view for one reason or another.
When considering my Web 2.0 options away from static pages, Movable Type seemed to be the more advanced and stable product, but I was looking for a DIY challenge, and I found it in WordPress 2.0.2. The latest version of WordPress, running here now, is 6.2.2.
Every time I feel like giving up, I find an excuse to keep going. The last big snafu forced me to run an outdated version of WordPress for a couple of years, and the site began crashing. After gritting my teeth and finding my way through that mess, I’m no longer hot on fixing technical problems. If another one of comparable difficulty hits, and Prattling Before the Pratfall breaks again, that’s when I’ll shut down.
Saying that reminds me of my years running the Boston Marathon. After crossing the finish line in agony, I’d tell myself “NEVER AGAIN!” By the time I was sitting on the bus half an hour later with my juice and cookies, waiting for the ride back to the starting line, I was thinking, “NEXT YEAR!”