Entry no.: 264

29 Sep 2007, 2:50 PM

Tags: anniversary, black and white, Kit·blog, Sony Ericsson K750i

Comments: 20

Personal Fifth

Kit·blog enters fifth year today

Good five or bad five, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bucharest, 2007

Will the 5th be a good year? A bad one? Light, dark? Long, short? Thick, thin?

Past

For almost one year at the current address (kitblog.com), previously (since 2003) located on my .Mac account (homepage.mac.com/cpaul/iblog), this blog approaches 1000 posts—one freaking thousand?!?—and counts over 600 self-made photos. Thousands of comments (that—unfortunately—disappeared from the old location). Four years of blogging, some pretty good, one not so great and a platform change that felt more like starting over.

Thanks

Thanks for dropping by, folks.

While every visit makes me feel good, still, I'm doing my best to keep this blog a little pensive and away from being a middlebrow affair. Thank you for stopping by and reading it.

Thank you for subscribing to my feed. For me, this means that more than a couple of hundreds of you care about what I'll concoct next. Thanks.

Years don't mean much when a blog is dead. And with no comments, nor e-mails, it would be—I do appreciate each and every comment and e-mail (yes, even when I'm too busy to reply). Thank you for sparing the time to share a thought.

Thank you for linking here and for spreading the word—this turns a blog from personal entertainment into something else, something much bigger. The perfect example would be the anti-SDPR's design law protest, when blogs and massive linking turned into a formidable power and triggered mainstream media responses in the country and abroad. Also, I'm grateful for being listed in your blogrolls. Thank you.

Future

Que Sera, Sera / Whatever will be, will be / The future's not ours, to see / Que Sera, Sera / What will be, will be.

Comments

Reply no.: 1

29 Sep 2007, 10:11 PM

Graft:

Happy birthday & keep up the good work.

Reply no.: 2

29 Sep 2007, 11:39 PM

Alexandre:

Keep this picture for 2057' birthday, as I'm sur you'll deliver the same quality for the next 50 years. See you soon

Reply no.: 3

30 Sep 2007, 4:38 AM

Maktaaq:

Congratulations!

My blog just turned 5 too, though I forgot to celebrate. So I'd rather celebrate yours!

Reply no.: 4

30 Sep 2007, 11:15 AM

Kit:

Thank you all.

Graft, I'll try. But—you know—Que Sera, Sera...

Alexandre, I have no clue how internet will look like in 2057. I hope it won't be run by evil robots.

Maktaaq, this blog only turns 4 (entering the fifth blogging season :) so I can only bow in front of you.

Reply no.: 5

30 Sep 2007, 3:34 PM

felipov:

A great fifth season of kitblog then.

Reply no.: 6

30 Sep 2007, 4:51 PM

cristi:

Congratulations! keep it up, i always enjoy your posts, but i enjoy the photos much more :)

Reply no.: 7

30 Sep 2007, 8:32 PM

Bogdana:

La mai multe posturi, Kit(blog). Thanks for showing us what it means to be a pro

Reply no.: 8

30 Sep 2007, 8:59 PM

Kit:

Wow, when it rains, it pours. Thank you, people!

Thanks Felipov, but let's put things is perspective here: I'll never be as popular as a cute, hugging Cephalopoda with a crazy name.

Cristi, I channeled my Flickr photo-stream feed into the main blog feed—I hope that'll help a bit. Thank you.

Bogdana, thanks—I hope you don't mean a pro blogger; at the present level of blogging haughtiness I'd starve in a week.

Reply no.: 9

1 Oct 2007, 11:10 AM

gulbin:

many happy returns of the day!

Reply no.: 10

2 Oct 2007, 10:02 AM

Kit:

Thank you, Gulbin. The mechanics of a blogging year is simple: blog while Earth goes around the Sun once. That's it.

Reply no.: 11

2 Oct 2007, 11:46 PM

Dan Petre:

I hate you Kit! I envy you Kit!
Just kidding :)

Reply no.: 12

2 Oct 2007, 11:59 PM

Kit:

Thank you, Dan. Just a quick question: um, do those two leverage or cancel each other? Are those sentiments additive or subtractive? :)

Reply no.: 13

4 Oct 2007, 1:32 AM

Dan Petre :

let me analyse it for another 5 years :)
and for that I need a cat..
I've just pointed out your blog to a friend of mine who is a psychologist. She was very interested in a professional meeting with a 5 years old blogger!

Reply no.: 14

4 Oct 2007, 9:20 AM

gupi:

2 thumbs up kit!

Reply no.: 15

4 Oct 2007, 11:10 AM

Paul:

Congratulations for the five!
Let' see the fifthie ....:)))

Reply no.: 16

4 Oct 2007, 2:52 PM

Kit:

Dan, is it that bad, doc?

Gupi, two is just enough. Thank you, old pall.

Thank you Paul—although that's a lot of work. Even bloggers retire, don't they?

Reply no.: 17

4 Oct 2007, 11:41 PM

Eugen:

wooooaah 5!
Happy blogday!

Reply no.: 18

5 Oct 2007, 11:40 AM

Kit:

Thank you, Mr. E! Only laziness stands between me and an every day is blogday type of proclamation.

Reply no.: 19

5 Oct 2007, 12:57 PM

Dan Petre :

Actually, she is fascinated by the prospect of understanding the psychological needs and motivations of a “senior” blogger :)

Reply no.: 20

8 Oct 2007, 2:59 PM

gulbin:

dan petre, what's the point of identifying the "psychological needs and motivations"? the more he's natural the merrier the readers are!
dar cu calul ce-ai avut? (ref. prizzi cat). just kidding

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