Happy Birthday, Blog!

Yesterday was the second anniversary of starting this blog. Here is my first trial post. The site has been around a little while longer, I first published a web page sometime around the first of 2003. Take a look at the site history here.

I've got lots of ideas for new material, but I can hardly keep up anymore. Several of the pages are out-of-date, like the Work page and my Bass page. I have been able to keep up with the Books page, mainly because I was able to convert it into a blog as well, and it is much easier to update. I created a blog for the What I'm Reading Now and What I'm Reading For Book Club, and then I move those posts over to the Books blog and it adds them to the Books page. The blogs are incorporated into the pages by server-side includes, commands that pull several files into one when you open the page. That's why the Home page and the Books page have the extension .php instead of .html, so that the server will recognize that there are commands contained in the HTML code that it needs to look for.

I've read a lot about splogging, or spam comments on blogs, but I've been lucky so far, maybe because I don't use blogspot to host my site, or maybe because I don't make the blog public in my profile on blogger. And my Chinese spam problem went away when I got rid of the drew@hevle.com email address (use the one at the bottom of this page, or firstname.lastname@lastname.com, or firstname.lastname@gmail.com, or my work email address, firstname.lastname@enbridge.com. Of course you should replace the word "firstname" with Drew and "lastname" with Hevle.