nothing major here, a simply minor star in this freaky constellation of a weblog.

i've dumped about 5 categories, so you can sayonara to Frivolous, Stuff ...and a few others that i've already forgotten. this meant that i had to sweep through all 140 or so posts to recategorize the now orphanless entries.

already, in the four or months i've been running this system, i've completely forgotten some of my initial entries, making it a nostalgia trip, even though it's not really that far back.

however, for true nostalgia, may i present my first two attempts at chronicling my life:

1. food [it's what goes into you.]: my blogger blog, which ran from march to july 2001, with a brief hiccough of meaningless input in september 2001 (or at least now meaningless since the last few entries were just quick posts so i would not lose the link but i posted no followup information). the reasons it died were twofold:
   1. blogger kept losing entries and i was fed up with refilling them.
   2. absolutely no feedback from anyone, mostly since people didn't really know what a weblog was at that time.
   however, i think it still looks great with a clean design and whimsical photography bits from my first lomo.

   i want to use food for something in the future, but i'm not sure quite what yet. a simple birth (in UNIX land, i wanted to see something funny when i typed in finger food) led to a simple site, but i need a hook to drag me back into that mad sea.

2. eggnog publications: mark 1: which was graig and i first planning our own news and review site back in 1998. graig had been working with his nextpage reviews and i was in the midst of a slow period of my job then (kinda like today at work, i guess), so any excuse to collaborate together was seized upon. the reasons it died:
   
   1. i went on a trip to finland and came back to an insane amount of work.
      
   2. graig stopped reviewing altogether for a while.
      
   3. the domain name we registered couldn't be put into place because no one i know could figure out the DNS.
      
   4. work stopped paying me and i was eventually laid off.
      
   5. graig moved to barrie.
   
   again, it looks simple and clean with a good start to a collection of work that would've been quite the fun place if only the timing was better. fortunately, graig and i collab now on the dirty monkey bugspray fun project, although we really really really need to use another template.
   

so mark 2 of the HMCS eggnog keep zipping along for now and i dig all your groovy input.