This is (roughly) the ten-thousandth post on this blog, which I started a little over six years ago. (The exact numbers for both bloggiversary and numbers of posts are uncertain, due to the loss of some of my earliest posts in blogging software changeovers/upgrades).

When I started, back in October of 2001 (a few weeks after 911) I had no idea how long I’d do it, or where it would lead. It has provided a lot of entertainment and visibility for me, in ways I wouldn’t necessarily have anticipated. I hope that at least a few of my readers have been entertained and enlightened by the efforts.