Ten Years After

Rather remarkably, today is the 10th anniversary of the very first post on this blog, and, while I started out full of enthusiasm, I don’t think I would have predicted that I’d still be churning them out a decade later.

It’s not been a steady stream of course – when I did a retrospective on the occasion of our 5th birthday back in 2012 I had a lot of material to work with; the pickings this time around are somewhat slimmer. There have been a few highlights though; here are my favourites:

2012

• Lunar Requiem
• Power and ideology on the internet: thoughts on the Violentacrez case
• The Lay of the Last Avatar

2013

• There is no land beyond the Volga
• Break On Through (To the Other Side)

2014

• Playing History
• Not far to reach
• In search of lost paperbacks
• That TV show you like is going to come back in style

2015

• They were defeated, we won the war
• Memories of futures past

2016

• Wild gravity
• Information overload
• Anti-Social
• How ’bout them Cubs?

2017

• Well, how did I get here?

So there you have it, 16 worthwhile pieces in 5 years. Is that a good enough return to justify keeping this blog going? On balance, I think so, though I guess we can revisit the question in 2022. In the meantime I’ll revive one of our traditions, which had sadly fallen into abeyance, the contrived musical link.