Blog Birthday and 100th Post

I remember one year ago, I started blogging on Blogger because I wanted to actually have a blog that would be public, unlike this informal one I kept on Windows Live Space.  Basically, I think I have come a long way from my first blog post on Blogger.  Since then, I've played around quite a bit, and I'm going to have a quick history of my online presence of "mzzyzx."

Here is my absolute first blog post ever, written in Windows Live Spaces:

Windows Live Spaces would have been a pretty good service, since it covers all the areas of social networking quiet well. However, I use Gmail much, much more, so I decided to play around in Blogger for a while.

Prior to playing around with Blogger, I managed to screw up stuff in my Google Sites wiki. Basically, this is the places where I categorize all of my school assignments into somewhat reasonable pages.  I haven't done that in a while, and I'll get working on that over winter break.

Sometime in January, I figured it would be worth my time taking a look at Posterous, since my AP World History teacher, and now Journalism II teacher, Ms. Wojo, suggested it to her students for their field trip project in her blog post and our class website: "Want really simple? Try Posterous. Just upload your photos or videos there. In a jiffy." That sounded encouraging, so I went ahead and gave it a try.

Now why did I give it a try?  It was because I was trying to find a place to hold mp3 files for a podcast, and to just embed mp3 files to play back.  In my post about Podbean.com, I managed to embed one of the mp3 files from SibeliusMusic.com, where I publish my music.  In general, I find that the flash player Posterous uses for playing files looks more elegant than the Podbean player.  Plus, Posterous' RSS feed also doubles as an iTunes podcast, so that's why I never got around to actually using Podbean.com.

Sometime after my summer at UCI, I had a good deal of pictures to send back to my friends via Flickr.  I was thinking that I got a yearly subscription as a pro user, so it would be worth my time sending that stuff to people under a more memorable URL.  Therefore I changed my default photostream URL to http://www.flickr.com/photos/mzzyzx, instead of that weird address with letters and numbers.

As a journalist for Hercules High School, I figured it would be worth my time playing around WordPress, so I made a blog there as well.  I tried making a layout for a possible journalism website, which is at this blog. There is only one post so far, and it was an auto-publish post from Google Docs, where I was working on a commentary on UCI.

Finally, the last thing left over is YouTube.  I have posted stuff on this blog under the YouTube username doctorknockers204.  Basically I decided I want to make one single identity online, so I created a new channel for mzzyzx, on Oct. 20.

So that is a partial history of my online presence.  It honestly isn't that important, since I really don't get many visitors to this blog, my wiki, or any of my other blogs.  However, one last thing worth looking at is this web search.