Today is Irreal’s twelfth birthday. Irreal started off slowly, like most blogs, but for the last 9 years, I’ve posted pretty much everyday except when things like power outages and the flu intervened.
As I’ve said before, the blog is not at all what I imagined when I started but even though there’s been some subject matter drift, looking back over the posts it’s always been indisputably recognizable as Irreal. You can expect that Irreal will remain pretty much the same in the next year. Emacs is still the most recurring and reader engaging topic but privacy and the misadventures of the press also make frequent appearances. The rest of the posts are about things that catch my fancy, annoy me, or incite my outrage. That will remain the template for most posts in Irreal’s thirteenth year.
Twelve years seems like a long time but others have been at it a lot longer than that so I’ll just keep on keeping on as long as I have the energy.