It's Been A Long Time
I'm starting in on one of my New Year's Resolutions early this year, and that's to pay more attention to my personal brand on the web, mainly as it relates to old sites I no longer update. I haven't updated this blog since July 2006 and now it's about to be January 2008! Better late than never!
It was very nice of TypePad to simply keep the account in suspended/deactivated status instead of deleting all the content. I hopped back in (username: "mike" since I was one of the first people to have a TypePad account!) and spent about 20 minutes deleting comment spam by the dozen. Then, since my old design was tied into CSS files and images that were residing on a server I no longer maintained, I downgraded my account and threw up a generic design.... at least for the moment. My new personal site (not a blog, but it will aggregate content I write from other sites) will be launching in a few weeks, so after that's done perhaps I'll put up a custom design here. Either way, I'm going to try to get back to posting but only about personal things, nothing about technology. It'll be hard for me but I used to do it for so long that I'm sure it'll be like riding a bicycle :)
So to people hitting this from your RSS reader, stop by and say hi! It's been so long that I don't think anyone is still subscribed, but hey, you never know.
Hey Mike...glad to see you posting on this again. I am very excited for the up-and-coming posts!
--Joe
Posted by: Joe Dolan | Monday, December 24, 2007 at 07:32 PM
Joe! Good to see ya man, and thanks for the well wishes. Merry christmas homie!
Posted by: Mike Rundle | Monday, December 24, 2007 at 08:13 PM
Just 1.5 years. :)
Nice thing about RSS readers is that I don't have to take care of dead blogs - they just don't show up in downloaded list.
And I get to see when some of them resurrects. :)
Posted by: Aleksandar | Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at 03:30 AM
Hey man. That's a good resolution. Looking forward to it. :)
Posted by: Matthew Oliphant | Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at 09:33 AM
Yep, still subscribed over here :)
Nice to see you're coming back.
Posted by: Matt Wilcox | Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Good to see you back Mike. :) Still subscribed, and it was nice to see it ping to life.
Posted by: Jakob Heuser | Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 04:16 PM
I'm still here. Looking forward to 2008. Year of the Return of Rundle.
Posted by: Colin Devroe | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 03:11 PM