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Today, blogs.sun.com is three years old - that should be young I guess - old seems wrong - this is still a very new medium to many and b.s.c feels anything but old. Anyway, congratulations to everyone who has made it a success - the people who run it and to the 3,000 plus employees (and alumni) who make it an interesting place.
I was a bit of a laggard compared to some of my colleagues (and ex-colleagues) - I didn't join the fray until July 2004. In that time I've posted 303 entries, spent some time helping Eduardo and Carla getting The Aquarium (es, ch, ja) up and running and spent way too much time playing around with Roller templates.
As an added bonus, and to my surprise someone actually reads my blog - in fact, occasionally a lot of people. Looking back at my statcounter logs - there have been a couple of notable peaks -
- When one of my rants about the middleware market got picked up on TSS
- One of my posts got highlighted on Ajaxian (this was a big peak - 4k hits in a day; even now it draws 20-30 hits a day)
- An entry about Zimbra got linked to by Tim Bray (which was pretty humbling knowing how much traffic someone like Tim draws)
- I got linked by the Big Boss (FWIW - this drew far fewer referrers than Tim Bray's link - sorry Jonathan)
I don't write much that I expect will be of earth shattering importance and am fairly limited to what I can talk about work-wise so it's nice to know that some of what I write here is interesting to someone way down on the outer-reaches of the long tail.
Here's to the next 3 years of blogs.sun.com.
