still blogging 1

i think i started my first blog in college (i actually have posts saved from 1/27/03, tho nowhere does it say anything resembling "hello world, i am new to blogging!"). it was olive green and was called "trips / travels" (defunct link: http://hometown.aol.com/neurp/opener.html) it was hosted by aol hometown and it was really difficult to use because it there wasn't a blog template; it was a blank page that you could add text boxes to (no rulers either! so you had to line everything up manually). it actually had a couple pages: the olive green homepage (with links and stuff), and a black blog in blue font (called "trips"). eventually i added a magenta page highlighting some lovier passages i had written about reep. ...and no, the colors aren't actually important, but that's how i see them in my head.

screenshot of trips / travels from 2005

after that first attempt, aol journals released an actual blog template. in june 2004 i started "(a)musing(s)" (defunct link: http://journals.aol.com/neurp/musings/) and it too was olive green. i mostly posted fun links and stuff. i now used "trips / travels" as my main page and linked my blog thru there. i think i was was also considering live journal, but i decided to stick with aol.

october 2004. started "travel log" (defunct link: http://journals.aol.com/neurp/travellog/) to take over my more personal "trips." i wanted a separate blog because i was getting random hits from strangers on (a)musing(s) and felt uncomfortable with them knowing the intimate details of my personal life. i like journals cause there was text box for music and you could display your mood (you could choose one of ...maybe 15). so at the end of some of my older blog posts, i have lyrics.

on april 24th 2005, i created yet another blog. this time named "snapshots," which focused on pretty things, rather than funny things, a la "(a)musing(s)." so i now had three blogs which i updated simultaneously. crazily enough, i was averaging about 2.5 posts every weekday. that's nuts!! i think by now i was just used to compartmentalizing my blogs. and really, i had two, what was one more? also, at that time you couldn't save your posts to be automatically published later (as i do now)

...history continued romrow...