…since this blog was created.
I feel both quite happy and somewhat old about that. I’ve probably not always given it the attention it deserves, but it has been a nice constant throughout the last two decades—a place to call home.
I’ve likely done more redesigns than blog posts, but that’s one of the great things about having your own space: you can experiment with things, try new ideas out without having to answer to anyone but yourself. It’s really helped my professional development, being able to experiment.
This site started back in 2004 on WordPress version 1.0.1, and back then, it really was just blogging software. WordPress also recently celebrated its 20th birthday and has evolved significantly since then. Over the years, I have increasingly used WordPress in my professional career to build larger and larger sites, to the point where it is now the basis of my own business – Dogwonder Ltd.
In a rather self-aggrandising way, this blog started with a quote from a French philosopher (we do tend to think highly of ourselves in our 20s). So I figured I might as well include one here.
“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void. We are back in the Byzantine situation, where idolatry calls on a plethora of images to conceal from itself the fact that God no longer exists. That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of a presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”
Jean Baudrillard
And some old designs of this blog going back through the years
