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I started blogging in September 2005. However, the oldest blog post I can find is from October 2006. The search for my first post continues on archive.org, that historian of the web.

I have held blogs of various names but never one with my own. I started blogging here on Blogger and then moved to WordPress. I moved back here because WordPress did not let me create a blog with my own name saying it was reserved.

Starting here again today, on my fifth marriage anniversary.

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