Recently I saw an ad for Wes Iseli's "flip" coin magic trick (the algos have figured out I kind of like 'magic exposed' videos) and went to google up more on it and found this blog boston.conman.org entry
So I was tickled to see a link to my own blog, kirk.is site on the side
(And then a link to flutterby - another long running blog site, even more aggressively rooted in the page layout tropes of an earlier era.)
I realized that the only reason I could reach out to the first link was because of an oldschool mailto: tag - and that my own site didn't have any "contact me" info. I probably avoided putting my own email up because of spammers, though that fight has more or less moved on. (Also there's a kind of half-wise, half-dumb assumption that most people who view my blog actually know me IRL)
Still, it's nice to see fellow old-school-bloggers still at it. There's probably a kind of mental hangup that keeps us at a pursuit for over two decades... but owning a little piece of the 'net that way before Web 2.0 moved everything onto other people's sites is still kind of fun.
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