Aral Balkan

Wow! My last post was the 1,000th on aralbalkan.com. I was thinking of writing something special for the 1,000th post but, in true blog style, it just happened to be on whatever was on my mind at the time (my new N800!)

When I was young, I remember pledging that one day I would write a computer program that had more than 1,000 lines of code in it (it seemed like such a huge number back then). Since then, I've probably written closer to 100,000 lines (and realized that less is more) but a thousand blog posts is still a cool milestone. I wonder how many posts I've written in total when you add up the ones on my previous blogs.

I should check the backups one day...

Here's to the next 1,000! :)

Comments

• I finally got around to starting a blog this month. So far it has two posts. You have just made me feel very inadequate! :D

  by David Arno on 2007-08-10 09:09:04

• Congratulations! That's quite a feat. I think I'm on about 500 and that's including old blogs. Lets see how long it takes you to get to 10,000 :)

  by Thom Shannon on 2007-08-09 15:16:46

• Congrats! Do you really think you aren't young anymore? :)

  by Rostislav Siryk on 2007-08-09 16:42:24

• congrats... I doubt I've read all 1000. maybe you can notify me when I have posted 1000 replies. 1000 lines of code. That's funny.. yeah, of course you want fewer lines--but some stuff is complex. I have students ask me how many lines of code something took and I don't even know how to count it. How?

  by Phillip Kerman on 2007-08-09 16:42:40

• @Rostislav: LOL, I guess I still am. But I was talking about when I was 7 :)

  by Aral on 2007-08-09 16:43:43

• Congratulations Aral! That is a huge milestone. With some luck and dedicaton I may get there someday.

  by Bruce Swedal on 2007-08-09 16:47:37

• Not only 1001 posts, but free advertisements in your comments as well. Thank you, Ray. How do we rid the world from these vermin...

  by Eric-Paul on 2007-08-10 10:34:36

• @Eric-Paul: I guess you were referring to "Ray's" spam comment (now deleted). Blog spammers are nothing more than petty thieves, raping your site for financial gain. These sad, pitiful people are not worth the time of day.

  by Aral on 2007-08-10 10:59:02

• Ah! thats a milestone! Congratulations on reaching the milestone and hey when are we getting 10,001th post :)

  by TipsoSaurus on 2007-08-13 15:38:08