Post #10,000 (I think)

By the best count I have available, this is the 10,000th post on the Daily Parker, going back to the very first news item posted on my very first website in July 1997.

I am not entirely sure this is really the 10,000th post, however, for a number of reasons. First, BlogEngine.NET doesn't actually count posts; I've had to use some arithmetic. Second, I removed a small number (3 or 4) of posts over the years for various reasons. Third, at some point I merged some of the posts from the separate Inner Drive Technology blog that ran from 2006 to 2008. Finally, I count 13 November 2005 as the first post of the "modern" era, when the blog became an intentional blog instead of a blog in all but name, if that makes sense. I've only posted 9,795 times since then, as the previous 205 were just a scrolling list of jokes, notes, news, and...a blog that got maybe 1 post a month instead of 41 posts a month.

As I've mentioned in passing, however, I'm writing my own blog engine from scratch, which I plan to finish before the end of the year. At that point I will know exactly how many posts the blog has because the new software will keep better statistics than BlogEngine.NET does. I also plan to write an intelligent importer that merges duplicate content from the existing history while adding certain kinds of notes and other content as full blog posts.

So this is one of those times where we just call it #10,000 officially, and revise the number when we have better data.

But still, 10,000 posts and just over 28 years of blogging. I'd wager there are fewer than 1,000 of us in the world who have done that.