LAST DAY

It seems like yesterday I wrote ”Holy cow, today is the last day of October”. And it seemed like only a week earlier I was freaking out that the previous month had gone by in two weeks. Today it feels like the entire month of November has whizzed by even faster. Is time accelerating?.

Yes, time, for me at least, is definitely accelerating, but I have no idea if it is for everybody else because I’m mostly avoiding everybody else.

Sometimes around this time of the year I like to mention that I started blogging in this month (November) back in 1998. So 27 years ago – sort of hard to believe really, even with time acceleration that still feels like a long time ago. 

They weren't even called “blogs” or “posts” back then, but thanks to the wonders of Wayback Machine all my all old web-pages are still there to be seen, including the very first incarnation of www.frot.co.nz from November 11 1998.

Wayback Machine doesn't save any of the images, so it’s really not it’s full original self, but it is at least purple. Pretty much every blog post and web page I’ve done for the past 27 years has either been purple or black. And that is how I like it.

But for a few years I did websites for paying customers, and had to give them whatever colours they wanted. I never really got over the psychological impact of having to design a beige website. That was a nasty hit to my delicate sensibilities...