From the mixed up files of Mr. Steven R. Neuman

I have had a bit of an absence from posting, but with good reason. I have been dredging through my files and re-posting (with the proper time stamps, of course) all my posts from the original Hyperbole blog. I hate to sound like a nostalgic geezer, but when I first started blogging in 2002, it was pretty rugged technology and the concept of what qualified as a post was still quite malleable. Continued ...

Archiving was a mess, there was no such thing as a "blogspot" domain and templates were just a glimmer in Google's eye. As a beginner you had to write your own HTML page and then insert the tags, so learning to blog meant learning HTML. Placing comments into the scheme was so complex I had to use an outside Web site. Needless to say, it was a crash course in technology. My first posts mostly consisted of "Why isn't this working?" then "Ok, I think I know why this isn't working," and finally, "Damn this thing for never working." Eventually I got it.

Besides getting the opportunity to see myself change, it also is like turning back the pages on a diary. I find myself wallowing in nostalgia for events that are not even half a decade past. Personally, I have never been able to keep a true pen-and-paper diary or journal, so this Web site presents a unique circumstance.

So what's your take on the long term effect of blogging? This is the frontier people, enjoy it while you can. P.S. If you don't get the title I'm sorry. You missed out on childhood if you ask me, but you could always catch up.

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