{"id":325,"date":"2007-01-05T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/05\/my-blog-turns-two-years-old\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T17:25:10","slug":"my-blog-turns-two-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/05\/my-blog-turns-two-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"My Blog Turns Two Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/05\/welcome\/\">Two years ago<\/a> I kicked off this blog in a very understated way.  By <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>'s calculations, I've had 306 posts in that time.  Here are some highlights of the two years:  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/googleads.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>SVG Attraction<\/h3>\n<p>Within a couple months, I made my first <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2005\/02\/28\/svg-insurgence\/\">first post about <span class=\"definition\" title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/span><\/a>.  Since then, and despite its slow and frustrating roll-out in the browser community, I've had an undeniable attraction to the graphics specification (hmm, maybe something disturbing like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Back_from_Vacation_(The_Office_episode)\">Jan for Michael<\/a> last night).  I've tried to keep experimenting with the technology (my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/20\/pretty-web-statistics-version-2\/\">web stats<\/a>, some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/games.php#web\">game demos<\/a>, some <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/05\/svg-toy-libraries-drag-and-snow\/\">JS libraries<\/a>, my blog header) and posting the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/03\/svg-news-digest-2007-01-03\/\">latest SVG news<\/a> from across the web.  I even started writing a couple articles for Opera about SVG (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/07\/devopera-now-in-quiet-beta\/\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/30\/calling-all-reviewers\/\">[2]<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/googleads.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>The Web Development Stack<\/h3>\n<p>My first rant about how much <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2005\/04\/11\/ajax-the-power-of-clean\/\">web development sucks<\/a>.  This lengthy post eventually made me realize how badly web development has to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/04\/04\/openlaszlo-to-support-dhtml\/\">move up the stack<\/a> towards higher-level tools and (possibly) new languages\/frameworks like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/09\/adobe-announces-end-of-life-for-svg-viewer\/\">Dojo<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openlaszlo.org\/\">OpenLaszlo<\/a>.  Let the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/19\/let-the-web-hacker-wars-begin\/\">Web Hacker Wars<\/a> begin!<\/p>\n<h3>Linux Migration<\/h3>\n<p>I started <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/25\/feel-my-shit\/\">experimenting with Mandriva Linux<\/a> early on in my blog's life, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/11\/starting-to-cozify-and-codify\/\">hard drive failures<\/a> and a growing realization of how <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2005\/02\/11\/a-patchy-here-a-patchy-there\/\">wrong Mandriva  was for my needs<\/a> forced me to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/13\/linux-in-the-prime-time\/\">experiment elsewhere<\/a> and eventually end up with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/30\/novell-reassurance\/\">OpenSuse<\/a>.  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