I’m more long-wearing than you are
29 January 2005

Hello, everybody. You know, weblogs did exist before the whole political weblog thing exploded, vomited, and landed all over our laps. I remember the days when Kottke.org was the one to emulate — these days it’s (would you have thought of any other) Glenn Reynolds. I know two people in real life (other than I) who know who the Instapundit is (Glenn is forever guilty for inspiring others, who are clearly not more or less pundit-like than you or I, into affixing the word ‘-pundit’ to weblog names). More surprisingly, I have met them in China. Less surprisingly, because Glenn is super-famous and all that among the keyboard warrior set, they all ask me how I managed to catch the prolific professor’s attention.

I did not, okay, okay okay?! He caught my attention when I was still using Blogger on Geocities. He was Instapundit then, but he wasn’t the Instapundit you hit (‘refresh’) on, with many thousands of readers, a more-than-respectable second income through Blogads, ‘Instalanches’, and fawning fans. Look up 20 August 2001, and there it is:

On the ‘must (er, should) read’ list today:
InstaPundit.Com. I don’t agree with everything he says, but it’s still good.

(I can’t link to the individual post because I can’t actually access Geocities directly, thanks to the Great Firewall of China. I’ve also whinged about being ignored as a Singapore blogger recently. Being really stressed out and busy, I’m all about the complaining at the moment — more so than usual, anyway.)

Please ignore any references I made to a boyfriend at that time. He was a prick. Also, I find the stuff I wrote about back then kind of cringingly embarrassing now.

6 Comments

  1. I can’t slag Glenn too bad, he was the one that sent me here (you might not be too happy about it though ;o).

    Comment by Terry — 30 January 2005 @ 3:30 pm

  2. Hehe. We like you, Terry. TuTu likes you especially!

    Comment by andrea — 31 January 2005 @ 8:11 am

  3. Could you please let me know if any nice looking female 30-somethings take a liking to me?

    */blows a kiss at TuTu so that he does not feel left out

    Comment by Terry — 31 January 2005 @ 11:47 am

  4. I've been around since back then too, don't forget. Just not blogging. But I still bug Andrea!

    Comment by orchid — 1 February 2005 @ 11:07 am

  5. Orchid, did you ever get that card??

    Comment by andrea — 1 February 2005 @ 1:45 pm

  6. I did and I loved it! Thanks!!! :)

    Comment by orchid — 5 February 2005 @ 12:51 pm

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