I've been blogging for ages

Well, I'm nicely ticking along with blogging (over the 100 post mark) and I was doing some research into a program I used to run in the academic team called Project Hurricane which has all but disappeared off t'internet. So, I fired up the Wayback Machine and fired in the URL and sure enough a load of the pages have been cached. But it got me thinking about back to when I first started at Microsoft and how I was one of only a 100 max bloggers in the company (before Scoble too). And thought it'd be interesting for those that know me to see what I was like back when I had just left uni and moved to England.

Marks mark on the www (December 2003) and Marks mark on the www (Sep 2003)

It didn't last too long to be fair but I remember getting good hits in terms of views and people saying they read my blog (even in LA which was cool).

And then it died. But came back again in 2004-5 for a bit on theSpoke (a student technology site) - MarkJ on theSpoke

A bit random but I thought it was cool to look back and see that I was a little ahead of the game (well, compared to MS UK blogger greats like Steve and Eileen) but just a pity I didn't stick at it during my early years at MS (I was crazy busy in year 1 at MS spending 6 months on the road) or everyone would be reading my blog :-). I'm very happy blogging now and plan to keep it up for the foreseeable future.