5 years of Blackwood

The first post in this weblog was written on September 20, 2000 just before noon. 5 years and still going (strong?). So far gotten 19.217 spam comments (no, really. Almost 20.000 spam comments), and they are still coming in spades.

So what have happened in the past 5 years? Well, let?s take a stroll down memory lane and see what we find.

• I’ve had my 15 kilobytes of fame with the Gamasutra Postmortem Analysis, which at the time geared a lot of traffic for my site.
• I’ve changed the language of this weblog from Danish to English, and that have in turn tripled the unique hits so I now have between 80 and 100 unique hits a day, which I think is pretty damn nice that at so many people like to read what I write.
• I’ve tried to get a clearer focus on the weblog, and am still struggling with that. Games seem to be the number one topic but books and movies sneak in there once in a while.
• Last year I did a recap of some of the different designs that have been here on Blackwood.dk and AllSimon.net as it was once called. Currently I’m using the new WordPress template by Michael Heilemann and Chris J. Davis called K2. Both K2 and the previous template Kubrick stands for me as some of the best and most beautiful templates ever created for any weblog system around.
• I’ve completed two educations and am currently completing my third at the IT-University of Copenhagen, which stands for me as the best place to educate your self. Period. Everything about the place is superb. And this fall I’m writing a paper on power structures in World of Warcraft (which basically means that I get time to play a lot of World of Warcraft in the coming months).
• My post about role-playing in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas got slashdotted (it?s been what?), although it was more indirectly, but still, it counts as a highlight in my book.
• I’ve become married to the woman of my dreams, which never seize to amaze me.
• And she has born me a wonderful son, which I am forever grateful for.
• In short, I?m have the time of my life.

Now, if I only could get some sleep everything would be perfect, I am currently so tired that zombies seem more up-beat than me and if I stand still for more than 30 seconds I simply fall asleep. Well, can’t have everything.