One year of blogging

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May 25, 2004

One year ago today (well, it’s actually yesterday, since it just crossed midnight), 24 May 2003, I wrote my very first blog entry. Of course, I started with good old Blogger, moved on to Blog-City, and then FreeRoller (now renamed to JRoller), before I finally settled on using Movable Type on my own hosting account. Probably going to stick around, at least until I manage to move to WordPress without losing my customizations to my Movable Type installation.

In the one year that’s passed, this weblog has undergone just 3 major redesigns (which I regrettably haven’t archived for future, er, contemplation). It started out as a Java blog, before getting more involved with web development topics, and then Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird) news. I think I’ve settled comfortably on the topics of “web development, Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, CSS, programming” plus any tech bits that interest me.

Anyway, I’m glad that people are still reading :), and I am honored to have actually made a good number of blogrolls. Thanks for having me.

Posted by Chu Yeow at May 25, 2004 SGT |

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Well, Chu Yeow, congrats on your year anniversary.

I must say that I am glad that I ran across your site! And your design is flawless, as there isn’t a thing about it I don’t like.

I too, am working on the move to Wordpress. I have become quite comfortable with the MT tags though. I plan on re-vamping my site completely with the change.

Anyhoos, great site and keep it up!

Posted by: Rob on May 25, 2004 2am

Congrats.

Posted by: Patrick on May 25, 2004 9am

Hi Chu Yeow and congratulations. Great site and on my list of must-visit-daily sites. Love the Mozilla updates. Great year and look forward to more :) Take care

—Vinny

Posted by: Vinny Carpenter on May 25, 2004 11am

Great writing for a year!

Nice read too…

Greenapple seems to have taken over the sunkist orange.

Posted by: lemonshiverman on May 25, 2004 1pm

Congrats!

Posted by: Syam Kumar on May 25, 2004 5pm

Happy blogday to you
Happy blogday to you
Happy blogday to you
happy blogday Cheah Chu Yeow
Happy blogday to you.

Great blog, thanks for your thoughts.

Posted by: Rhys on May 25, 2004 6pm

Hey Joel,

Congrats to ya/ You should try Textpattern. It’s hot, man! :)

Aaron

Posted by: Aaron Brazell on May 26, 2004 11am

congratulations to cheah chu yeow
Redemption in a Blog is one year old yesterday. I don’t have a blogroll, but I read a lot of blogs (mostly Mozilla-related) and this is one I find myself at fairly regularly. If you’re looking to expand your list of Mozilla-related daily reads, do give…

Posted by: adot's notblog* on May 26, 2004 1pm

Thanks everyone for your kind words :)

Rob: Yeah exactly. I’ve become quite familiar with MT tags and Wordpress “template tags” leave quite a bit to be desired. There’s a little mess in the documentation.

lemonshiverman: Er, yeah, whatever ;)

Aaron: Hey dude, see that you’re finally back blogging since Emmense. Textpattern I’ve tried before, but that was awhile ago and it didn’t turn out to be what I was looking for. Will take a look at it again as I square-off WordPress and Textpattern as MT replacements.

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on May 27, 2004 1am

Congratulations on your first anniversary :-)

My blog is on wordpress though. Personally finding wordpress is much much more easier to install than Movable Type. I am able to get WordPress work much more quicker than Movable Type. But the major reason which prompts me to make the move is the charging scheme Six Apart, going to put on Movable Type.

Posted by: Ian Lim on May 28, 2004 11am