Like the Queen, my weblog has two birthdays. Unlike the Queen I can never quite remember when the first one is. It’s sometime around now, that I’m sure of. In March 2000 I’d just moved to London and was without a job for the first three weeks so I started keeping a diary, edited by hand and FTPed onto some free webspace from the ISP. One of my friends said I’d gone mad. Another replied saying I was just being Pete. Little did they know I’d stumbled upon the next great communications medium of our age. Go me.
In June I started using Blogger and which is when the archives you’ll find on this site start. That’s the blog’s other birthday and the one I really celebrate. Okay, not celebrate. Mention.
Anyway, while vainly trying to find what the URL of this lost diary was so I might try and find it in the Wayback Machine I discovered that its Jez‘s blog’s 5th birthday on March 20th, something he never mentions. I’m pretty sure Matthew started his around then too. All those were the days. What memories.