My 20th Blog Anniversary

26 Oct 2025 » 1 min read » Filed under: Blog & Site Meta

This is just a quick note to recognize that today, October 26, 2025 is the official 20th anniversary of this blog. My first post (a list of driving music) appeared on October 26, 2005. Back then, the blog was on LiveJournal, but it was just a few years later that I migrated it to WordPress, which I have been using ever since.

In the year last 20 years, I’ve written more than 7,300 posts, seen my nearly 2 million people and totaling nearly 4 million views.

The blog serves as a kind of parallel journal of my life over the last 20 years. Of all of the writing I’ve done, writing for the blog is my favorite. Perhaps that is because of the wonderful readers that I have, always kind, even when correcting many infelicities in my writing, always engaging.

So on this 20th anniversary, I send a big THANK YOU out to all of my readers over the years. You are the best a writer could hope for!

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6 responses to “My 20th Blog Anniversary”

  1. Thank you, Jamie, for your kind and comforting voice over all these years.
    Your blog has made a real difference in my life — and I’m sure in many others’ lives as well.

    From going paperless, coding, to discovering Evernote, audiobooks, and Obsidian, to learning to value the little things and appreciate the beauty in life — you’ve been a constant source of inspiration. Thank you!

  2. Congratulations! Thanks for continuing to carry the blogging torch. 👏

  3. Congratulations on not only 20 years, but 20 years of consistent writing!

  4. Congratulations and thank you for all that you do!

  5. sewwelch

    Congratulations! I learned from you, from afar while bringing up the website for a very small church in Northern California. Thank-you for the engaging pieces to read and the lessons along the way.

  6. Congrats!!! I came here for going paperless and stayed because of so much more. Of the few blogs this is the only one I come back to frequently for almost 7 years now. This says something about the blog and the blogger. I hope for the next 20 years. I you keep blogging I will read it.

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