Happy Birthday and all that
I have just realised today is a special day.
On this day back in 2006 I registered headrambles.com and the site was born.
Actually the site was around for a few days before that, and to really fuck things up I pre-dated a couple of items. But today is the official start day when Rambles was born and the world has never been the same since.
Seventeen years? Fuck! It was supposed to be just a couple of items to see what this “blogging” world was all about. This one will be the 5,634th post! 69,507 comments!!
I have no idea how many visits it has had as Google fucked up the system recently and I lost interest in it. I use my own stats since then. It was somewhere the two million mark as far as I remember.
The one notable evolution over the years is how it used to be an Irish site but now the main bulk of visits is always the UK.
Anyhows, it’s a miracle that it’s still running.
If I had known at the start that it was going to be still running seventeen years later……
I never would have started.
A very happy birthday to headrmbles, long may it continue. After 3 weeks of constantly kicking Mac OS your emails are (at least mostly) arriving in my inbox instead of the spam folder.A vague success of sorts.
Mac OS? Well, you know what I’m going to say next?!!
Must be doing something right.
I am glad you started and even gladder you persevere.
It is good to get an insight into someone else’s life, society, nation presented in an unbiased way, or at least straight forwardly and honestly biased.
And I especially like the little “Irishisms” that you throw in. Take me back to when I was a wee cub.
Has anyone compiled a dictionary of such gems. Otherwise they will fade away, lost in a desert of pc mid Atlantic keigh.
I have just found out that “gladder” is not a proper word. Well, there ye go.
Irishisms? I wasn’t aware that I was using any. Examples?
Congratulations on your site’s longevity and my hope is that Penny will only piss and shit outdoors from now on!
It’s a great pastime, this blogging, and as a fairly recent arrival to your sainted lines, you deserve congratulations for perseverance and also a lot of laughs and interest!
One post every day or so is beyond me, but luckily I can find enough drivel to fill about four or five a month…
will add my “Happy Birthday” here in the headrambles.com hall of fame.
Well, Happy Birthday Head Rambles! I remember when you wrote the “10 years old” post. Hell, I almost recall when I first left a comment on Head Rambles but unfortunately the memory ain’t what it used to be.
October 2007. Almost a year after I started. You have been around almost long enough to earn a loyalty card.