Various and Sundry @ One Year
I blew it. I knew the one year anniversary of this blog was coming up, but I thought it was at the end of the month. As it turns out, it was last week. September 17, 2002 was the first entry in this blog. This will be entry #765 or so. I wanted to do an entry a day, and I’ve managed to double it.
To celebrate, I’ve done a minor upgrade to some surface elements of the site. You’ll notice the little annoying graphics peppered up and down the right column of the screen. I hate web pages that use graphics where regular plain text will do. On the other hand, this is a web site set up so I could learn new things, and I had some fun with Illustrator in making those this morning. Besides, if everyone else does it, who will notice? Each graphic, BTW, is less than 2kb in size, so it shouldn’t really affect your loading speed for this page too much. They’re in .PNG format. If your web browser has a problem with that, I would suggest getting a real browser. ;-)
I’ve also put together a couple new banners. They’ll show up here and there.
The fonts all come from Blambot, in case your looking for some great and easy to use fonts for non-profit purposes…
Thanks for reading this past year. There’s lots more to come. I’m not stopping now.

26. September 2003 at 12:49
Congratulations on hitting the year mark. I’ve been here about 5 months or so and it remains a fun part of my regular work day.
26. September 2003 at 13:42
Happy Birthday!
26. September 2003 at 14:27
Congrats on making it to the one year mark, Augie!!! I know I visit a couple of times a week, if not more often, to get a dosage of “real” news and quirky stuff from around the world and the web.
Still not convinced by the Meatloaf love, though….. ;)
And the new little graphics are cute!!!!
26. September 2003 at 15:28
Congratulations Augie.
You are a lot of fun to read (and very informative).
Keep it up
27. September 2003 at 16:14
Thanks, everyone, for the kind words. (And don’t worry, Bronte; I’ll forgive you on the Meat Loaf thing.)
It’s been a lot of fun, particularly to have a site to call all my own. And, let’s be honest, I get to blow off a lot of steam here I wouldn’t otherwise have a place to do so.
-Augie