It seems like it has been longer, but today, which coincides with the Autumnal Equinox, is the ninth anniversary of the CB&D blog. Since we had our own internet service provider and domain/website, we skipped the Blogger/Blogspot routine and went for a self-hosted weblog using a somewhat inferior publishing platform, the name of which I forget, and upgraded to WordPress® shortly afterwards. Some of the very early posts were lost in the process of upgrading, but the ones we managed to recover are still in the database on the ISP’s server. This post marks the 6326th blog entry into the WordPress database. That is a lot of hot air!
To us, the weblog has been a way to archive our activities and to log events as they take place. Sort of like an on-line diary, if you will. Every once in a while, I will dig back into the archives to try and locate something we knew happened in the past and usually can find what I’m seeking with the platform’s built-in search engine.
We may not post as often as we did in the past (life has its complications), nor do we post as politically as in the past, but we plan to continue using the weblog as a journal of events, a repository for a few of the Damsel’s photos and whatever whim suits us. We’re independent of social media (Bookface, Twatter, etc.), so there won’t be any repression of our thoughts unless the First Amendment is repealed – which this administration is rapidly seeking to do.
We should be here for a while . . .
I sometimes just have to laugh at some of the weird sh!t that gets caught in the spam trap here. We have been using a no-longer-supported plug-in called Spam Karma. Regardless of the non-support, it still does a real good job of eliminating an estimated 99.9 percent of spam comments.
Our internet service provider has notified us that there may be intermittent outages in our MySQL access over the weekend. Please tune back in after it’s over. Thanks.
