Time Immortal

Blazing Cat Fur writes:

I do enjoy your blog and your subtle sense of sarcasm;)

That’s the sort of endorsement that makes a guy like me blush. And actually, I’d like to answer and endorsement with an endorsement; Blazing Cat Fur is a great blog to read, I find. Genuinely unapologetic conservatives are not the most common breed. And don’t miss the profile cartoon for the blog — man, I think my friend Paul used that as his MSN name for a month!

Some history:

Time Immortal went live on May 19th of 2004, and was built (at the time) with Macromedia Dreamweaver, using CuteNews for database-free content management.

By August of that year, I’d overhauled the look of the page to be free of frames, but I was still using CuteNews and Dreamweaver. The site languished for a while at that point, before being resurrected on Marth 13th of 2005, this time using the Mambo PHP/MySQL-driven content management system.

And then the site languished again. For a time, the blog was moved over to a subdomain, kennethk.timeimmortal.net. This subdomain actually went live in 2004 at some point (probably July or August), but once it was converted to Mambo (on November 11th of 2004), it became my primary blog.

That lasted until February 7th of 2006, at which point I moved blogging back to the main Time Immortal domain. I was still using Mambo at this point. In the time that had transpired between starting and ending the “kennethk” subdomain, I’d coined the term “backdoor sharia“, participated in the Omar Alghabra blogburst (mistakenly, as it turned out), and made Lost Budgie spew coffee all over his keyboard by remarking that, failing the success of trying to “follow the money”, one should “follow the genitalia” — that was in an article on Islamic suicide bombers wrapping their…uhm…”little jihadists” in aluminum foil prior to self-detonating.

Oh, Lost Budgie…where have you gone?

Anyhow, it wasn’t until January of 2007 that Time Immortal switched over to using the Wordpress content management system, and it will remain with that system for the time being. I keep getting tempted to return to the heady days of Mambo, but I just don’t like how the templates for that system cannot be edited online, in a compartmentalized fashion.

I don’t really know why I just went in to all that detail, but for whatever reason…there it is. I’ve been blogging, in some way or another, for almost four years now, and it’s amazing how much the world has changed even in that short span of time (not always for the better). Four years ago, I’d never even heard of Richard Dawkins — now, I lampoon the man regularly, and many of his contemporaries likewise. The Twin Towers had come down, but the Muhammad cartoons hadn’t yet been published. And I had no idea that human rights commissions were as much of a threat as they were. Oh, and I was still in university.

Still, if those were happier times, these are better times, and I’ve no complaints. The blog continues to grow, and is picking up traffic little by little, which I like. And in the meantime, if a few cool cats like BCF give it a read once in a while, I can say my day is made.

Or at least that my day would be made, except for the fact that my wife already makes my day just by virtue of being next to me when I wake up in the morning.