Hey, I almost forgot that this blog is five years old today.

Here's what it looked like in the early days on blogspot.

And here it is in July of 2003, right after I moved it to HostMatters with a cool redesign by Little Green Footballs:

And in June of 2004, the blog was redesigned again by Sekimori to its present form.

I'm not much on statistic-keeping, but according to the Site Meter, total hits are 2,839,355, with 3,837,105 page views. I tried to do a word count once last year, and it was difficult, but it appears that there are millions of words in the archives. There have been well over 6000 posts (many of which are essays), and while I've written most of them myself, there have been as many as four co-bloggers over the years:

Beck, who's written 8 posts;

Dennis, who's written 250;

Justin, who's written 322;

M. Simon (of Power and Control) who will probably be writing his 500th post today. (My congratulations!)

Considering that the goal of this blog is admittedly unachievable, I'd say the work is far from over.