I started my first blog, called “Perspective,” in the fall of 2003. I was using a version of SharePoint (version 1) where I hacked up a discussion board to allow public and anonymous comments and display posts in reverse chronological order the way it was looking like blog stuff (web logs still at that time) was heading.
At the time, I was hosting a good batch of web sites via my consulting business. So adding some SharePoint offerings was logical (to me). Well, SharePoint was not *ON FIRE* like it is today. 
So, I started using LiveJournal in the fall of 2004. That was the platform that appeared to have the best offerings. I continued there until July of 2006, when I switched to WordPress, where I currently keep this blog, along with a few others.
Earlier this morning (which is really early because I can’t sleep and it’s before 5 AM right now) I imported all of the LiveJournal posts and comments into this blog, here on WordPress. That brings this current blog up to having 1,084 posts, counting this one.
I was pretty active in 2006, with about 2 posts a day. Actually, there was a time in 2006 when the only “toby” listings that were ranked higher than me in Google were Toby Keith and Toby Ziegler. That was ok because I was/am a huge West Wing fan. Anyway… back to my blogging history…
As far as I can remember, after the recent import, my only blogging that is not still live today is that first year, with my self-hosted web log on SharePoint. Hmmm… interesting that my day job is all about SharePoint now and *that* old piece of my blogging history is the only part absent. Maybe I can pull somethign off an old hard drive and capture that old stuff, but I doubt it’s worth the effort. I think that old server was pieced together with duct tape! No, it really wasn’t – and I was using it for business stuff, so it was ok… just sarcastic about that with old servers like that looking silly with more computing power and memory and hard drive space and bandwidth – - on our phones nowadays.
So, there you have it… 2003 to 2009. Times have changed. Blog software, hardware, URL’s, comments, RSS, etc… it’s all evolved. I’m even writing this on a Mac. 
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