Thanks to everyone who came to the blogger meet-up at Mudhouse on Saturday! I was really surprised by the turnout we got - must have been seven or eight others there besides me. We had a good time, though I hope we didn’t scare Elizabeth too much with the endless talk about old Content Management Systems and XHTML and so on and so on.

There was a nice long conversation about the Charlottesville Flickr group, and I realized how many bloggers have super-sweet digital cameras. The extent of my photo-taking abilities lies with my Nokia cell phone, and let’s just say the image-optimization on that thing is very limited. Eh, I’m more of a video camera person, anyway.

The meeting also made me realize something that I hadn’t thought about in a while: I’ve actually be blogging for almost 3.5 years now! It hasn’t all been on this blog, but I started back in January 2004 on good-ol’ Blogger. Heh, it was strictly a person-blog, with rants about my friends and family… Pretty boring, really. Though I do occasionally miss the anonymity that came with a two-month-old blog that no one related to me knew about. As it stands, any of my relatives can just search for “michael strickland” on Google and instantly come up with my blog… so much for putting anything too personal on there. I guess that just serves as a filter against the really intimate details of my life that no one would want to hear about anyway. So it’s all good.

Thanks for holding it! I had fun.

Thank you for arranging the meet-up, the conversation was great and a lot of fun.

Couldn’t have happened without you, Waldo!

It was a lot of fun. Terrific to meet everybody. And no, I was not scared — I’ve heard so much about CMS and XHML at home that it just sounds like blah blah blah to me.

good times had by all… or me, at least

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