
Birthday #1
27 November 2004
It was exactly this day a year ago that I tentatively put up The Man in Blue.
I hoped that people would like it, that someone might link to it, but I've been overwhelmed by the response to the design (now a little old fashioned) and the sprinkling of articles that I've managed to sneak past my editor (that part of my brain which precipitates embarassment).
Since then I've become part of a fantastic, forward thinking and friendly community of web developers who have taught me so much and are really making the Internet a better place. We've progressed so much in just 365 days, who knows where we'll be in 3650?
Here's a few personal highlights from those halcyon days:
- Getting asked 10 questions by Russ Weakley (RUSS WEAKLEY!)
- Helping to start the Web Standards Awards
- Being quoted by Keith Robinson (KEITH ROBINSON!)
- Packing out a theatre with 200 other Standards nuts at Web Essentials 04
- Making it into the top 10 queries for "scrabble" even though I purposely misspelt it
- Presenting a bumbling presentation to the Web Standards Group
- Being considered a CSS luminary by some strange people (thanks anyway!)
- Empirically determining the World's favourite colour
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this site, whether it be through insightful comments or useless ear bashing. Here's hoping I can do at least one more good thing in the second year!
Comments
1/16. 27 November 2004 @ 12:54, Keith wrote:
Happy Birthday! Thanks for all the insightful (and quoteworthy!) articles, posts and experiments.
Here's to another year!
Cheers.
2/16. 27 November 2004 @ 14:46, Michael Koukoullis wrote:
Well done Cameron, I admire your commitment. Keep up the awesome work!
3/16. 27 November 2004 @ 16:27, Amit Karmakar wrote:
Well done Cameron, Congrats! Happy Blog Birthday :)
4/16. 28 November 2004 @ 11:07, Malarkey wrote:
Crikey! Is that all you've managed to do in a year?
Better start pulling your finger out Cam! ;)
HB
Malarkey
5/16. 28 November 2004 @ 15:05, ACJ wrote:
Happy Birthday! I loved your latest experiments. Keep up the good work.
6/16. 28 November 2004 @ 20:16, Rob Mientjes wrote:
Congratulations! I think you should really give us another present in the form of an article ;)
7/16. 28 November 2004 @ 22:35, dez wrote:
Good job. For Birthday #2 I expect you to be blogging from SF, USA. Carpe Diem or some such thing...
8/16. 29 November 2004 @ 07:15, Russ wrote:
Excellent stuff. Keep up the great work. Of course, the pressure is on now. We expect huge things over the next 12 months
9/16. 29 November 2004 @ 14:13, Tim Hill wrote:
congrats, now add in that 'print_me_out_a_million_dollar_bill.exe' feature, and you get my vote for css lumberjack
10/16. 29 November 2004 @ 20:15, seriocomic wrote:
ditto everything above - deserved praise to a deserved recipient.
11/16. 29 November 2004 @ 23:31, Unearthed Ruminator wrote:
Has it been a year already? Congratulations!
12/16. 30 November 2004 @ 00:12, Chris Bloom wrote:
Been coming here for a while now and I always appreciate your attention to detail. Happy B-day, o' Man in Blue, and many more!
Now, back to banging my head on the wall trying to get my XHTML/CSS design to work :(
13/16. 30 November 2004 @ 13:28, Lachlan Hardy wrote:
Happy birthday, my man. You've earned every bit of recognition you've received over the last year
Now... where's the party?
14/16. 30 November 2004 @ 13:35, The Man in Blue wrote:
We had it at your place last weekend, remember? Geeze, you must have been *really* drunk.
15/16. 30 November 2004 @ 15:08, Lachlan Hardy wrote:
Yeah, I remember that you didn't show up!
Which means you will never get to gaze in wonder at my awesome collection of books, housed in the magnificent bookcase of doom - unless, of course, you come to another of my parties sometime
Besides, it is summer. We need more parties! I say, "Party at Cameron's house". Who's with me?
16/16. 1 December 2004 @ 08:17, Michael Koukoullis wrote:
I'm with you, party at Cameron's I say, someone rig up a poll or something, we need some popular support.
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