Blast from the past

Tonight I fired up my trusty web browser, pointed it at my three old blogs, and started reading. I haven't updated anything in four years. It was a strange experience reading what the old me had to say. I didn't remember half of what I was talking about or many of those movies. At least not at first. Occasionally I made a good point or said something funny. It's good to know that I can still amuse myself even if the jokes are stale.

A few things really bothered me:

• Was I really so important that I needed to have three blogs? Did I really need one for movies, one for software development, and one for all of my other rambling thoughts?
• Was I really still using two spaces after every sentence as late as four years ago? I feel like I stopped doing that four decades ago. I can't stand that now. Dear Old Me: Stop putting two spaces after every sentence immediately. I don't care what they told you in school, just stop. A computer is not a typewriter. Also, lose weight, exercise more, and buy as much Google stock as you can when they go public. -Your Future Self
• I used the phrase "At any rate" all the time four years ago. I have no idea why.

I did what any self-respecting anal-retentive control freak perfectionist would do. I fixed all of those problems. I merged the three blogs, removed the extra spaces in places where it stood out, and deleted every last one of the "At any rate's".

Except for the ones in this posting of course.

I also cleaned up a bunch of the old links. Sadly, the web site for Professor Stink's Fart Fan no longer exists, but you can still buy them on Amazon. Be sure to check out the product description.