It was 14 years ago today that I fulfilled a singular goal – to launch a blog site before the end of that year 2006. I did so with my first post titled “hello world” in homage to the typical phrase a programmer would display when working in a new computer language. I did it. Goal achieved. Yea me!

It wasn’t until a couple of days later that I wrote my first “real” post on the topic of giving a job reference to a recruiter and the blog took flight from there. Sure, there were gaps and restarts, and we arrive here today with this being the 947th post.

Over the years, but not every year, I wrote similar anniversary posts like this one, as I believe such milestones should be celebrated. If you’re so inclined, you can find links to them all on the Archives page.

In closing there’s not much to deconstruct, overanalyze or predict. I have been working on much more thoughtful posts as compared to at least what’s come out over the last month. I am looking forward to those, as well as whatever else comes to mind to keep with the theme here of striking the iron while it is hot.

This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.

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Comments

Congratulations on the 14th anniversary!

Say, are we in the year 2030? Your opening line states, “It was 14 years ago today that I fulfilled a singular goal – to launch a blog site before the end of that year 2016.”

Shouldn’t “2016” be “2006”?

Comment by Matt Maldre
on 12/30/20 at 11:21 PM
 

@Matt - Thanks… and great catch - corrected!

mp/m

Comment by Mike Maddaloni
on 12/30/20 at 11:46 PM
 

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