(Disclaimer: Yeah I ripped off the Title of this post. 
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Well looking into the Official Blog and reading with interest about the DMOZ Time Machine, I decided to take a little peak back in my archives. Of course my archives don’t go back 10 years (yet), I only started recording my ramblings two years ago. So my look back was much shorter.
1 year ago it would seem that I was also looking back in time. I reported then that I had logged just over 24,000 edits. I am slightly embarrassed to say I have only managed about 3,000 more since then. Of course I had also taken several breaks during the past year and also resigned for about 12 hours once. . On top of that real life has stepped in the way and I also added helping out at BOTW to my plate. Despite being a very slow year for me, by most standards, its been enjoyable for the most part.
I also note that I wrote a couple of articles back in October of 2007. The first was Titled “DMOZ: Can’t find your authentication ticket” is still one of my most visited articles. It was written to help explain a very common application issue that new editor applicants can have. That article still manages a number of hits a month and for a long time was my most clicked article. Hopefully it helped a few applicants understand the situation as this is a very common editor application problem. I also wrote Wow! A DMOZ Referral In My Logs about commonly misunderstood reports in site logs. Editors have long struggled with the myth that a site log report showing a visit from dmoz.org means an editor reviewed the site – Which it doesn’t. 
December of 2006 brought on the birth of this blog, for the better or worse. It had a lot (or little) to talk about in December because that was the time where DMOZ was still trying to recover from The Great Crash of 2006. Re-living the frustration we all had when DMOZ couldn’t seem to kick start itself following the server issues, was kind of interesting. Seeing my old “eyes” again, was kind of entertaining too. I still remember the lengthy discussions I had with my old friend dogbows, who worked hard to help me keep them from being too amateur-ish . As you can see it didn’t end well, despite her best efforts to clean up my juvenile rendition. 
Still, those eyes served me well and I think helped define my online presence for me. I much prefer my more ‘professional’ upgrade, though. 
I may be a little biased, but I think I have come a long way since those times. To all of my regular readers (yeah both of you ), thanks for continuing to stop by. For those stopping by for the first time, sorry.
