Twelve years ago today, I hosted an issue of Mendel’s Garden blog carnival here. Looking at it again today prompted some reflections.

Getting used to the new computer was a delight, mostly. Some issues remain, notably with the lack of ports and the number of external things I need, but overall great joy. The speed of the thing often makes me think it has read my mind. Excellent downtime too, after the usual, hectic, we-must-have-it-by-the-end-of-the-year rush. Boosted too, which is nice.

Still pursuing the idea of sharing from NewsBlur to other places, especially Known and Micro.blog, I went digging around in the code. All of the options are in a section of NewsBlur-master/media/js/newsblur/reader/reader.js starting at line 2560.

Not that any of them will read it but what, I wonder, would young people make of my post from exactly ten years ago? Yahoo Pipes? RSS? Curating content in order to share it from my own site? Clearly the hallucinations of an old fart’s brain.

And yet, it brought back memories of real achievemen...

Launched in 2004, regrettheerror.com was a wonderful source of entertainment. Craig Silverman, who started it, moved on to bigger and better things, and Poynter took over the annual round-up that celebrated the art and craft of the correction. Since 2004, of course, the whole enterprise has gradua...