Marking Six Years on Typepad

PERHAPS I SETTLE into routines easily and that explains why I've happily stayed with Six Apart's (6A) Typepad for six years. I've dabbled with Blogger, Movable Type, Radio Userland, and Wordpress. I trust Typepad more than any of those services and now have six years of blog posts on the 6A servers. During those last six years, I've watched some very important shifts occur in technology. The world is moving quickly to netbooks and many people think those small form factor devices are the only things around where you can get a computer running quickly from a cold start. The little Nokia 9210i at left would argue the point and so would its descendents, including the iPhone. Truly smart phones are mini-computers that boot quickly and never lose your work. The iPhone has captivated millions with its touchscreen UI. Some of my first posts onto Typepad came from the touchscreen of the IBM Transnote computer shown at left. Back when my Typepad blog was new, its high speed updates happened because I had very pricey ISDN at home. Nowadays, I use O2-Ireland's 3G service for half of my blog posts and that costs me no more than one-quarter of what I was spending on ISDN plans back in 2003.

Some day, I need to flick through my Typepad blog and chronicle the big changes that happened to my personal technology through the years. The handy thing about journaling my thoughts through this channel is that my online diary can become a trustworthy record of what I was doing when I was learning new things.

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