In 2004 this blog started out as a self-hosted, custom scripted blog site powered by a stand alone php script. It’s traveled to various hosts and back again. Somehow never losing a post or index during migration. I started it shortly my first son Connor was born and he’ll be 21 in September. The main motivation was a digital journal. I never settled on what it would become. It’s a personal mashup of personal photos, now mostly hosted on social media, technical endeavors covering my 28 year IT career, some political ramblings and technical predictions.
In the 20 years a lot has changed in the world. Some of my first posts included installing bitpim to download images from flip phones, the site started before iPhones were invented, and how to break into a Cisco PIX firewall with physical access. My very favorite post ever was recording the day I gave Connor his first gaming laptop at just 4 years-old. It was an Ubuntu system for kids games online. Next year he’ll gradate from William Peace University with a Bachelors in E-Sports and Tournament Gaming Management. Little did I know I was literally setting him down a path for life.
I love this blog. I’m leaving the username and password for my children. They’ll be able to uncover all the private and unpublished posts I’ve collected through the years and hopefully be able to better understand their father.
My love for my family has grown so immense over the time these posts have taken place I feel like it’s a record of us. After all most everyone knows Amy and I met on Match.com in 2001, the predecessor to Matchmaker and most other dating sites. Their success was as great as our marriage as they became the Match Group, which owns and operates several online dating web sites including OkCupid, Tinder, PlentyOfFish. They went public in 2015. If it wasn’t for that site and the internet, I wouldn’t know my children today.