Sunday, October 12, 2003
Happy 3rd Birthday Pocket PC Thoughts!
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 10:00 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that Pocket PC Thoughts turned three years old today - the very first post I did on the site was on October 12th, 2000.
Here's that post, republished in all its glory:
"Welcome to Pocket PC Thoughts! This site is driven by Blogger, a really innovative way of doing what's called a "web log". A web log is similar to a journal - thoughts, discoveries, new information. The goal of this particular web log is to serve as a focal point for all my thoughts on the Pocket PC. If I find a cool new program, you'll hear about it here. If I discover a workaround for a flaw in the Pocket PC OS, you'll read it here. When I write new articles or columns that I want to draw your attention to, I'll mention it here. When I find a news article that I think others should read, the link will be posted here. This will also serve as a collection point for things that I can't put on PocketPC.com - things like registry hacks and my more, ah, aggressive opinions about certain things. My goal is to update this site at least once a day, sometimes more.
Everything here is my opinion, and does not reflect my role as PocketPC.com Contributing Editor or Microsoft MVP in any way. That said, I'm not planning on going overboard too much in this forum. I'm also not going to go back and edit things I've written, so if I was wrong about something, it will stay there forever. 'aint technology grand? I'll also be using a taxonomy of sorts - each Blog will be prefaced by an all-caps indicator of what it is. PROGRAM, THOUGHT, NEWS, SITE, etc. I imagine this taxonomy will evolve over time.
I'll probably set up some sort of notification system in the future, but in the meantime, why not create a Mobile Favorite of this page? Set it to update every morning and you'll always have the latest content on here. If it the Mobile Favorite does't break that is. :-) And if there are issues you'd like to have me address and talk about, or disagree with something I've said let me know. Please note that this email address isn't for questions about Pocket PC's - I'd prefer if you went to the Pocket PC Community Forums for that. Thanks!"
Ah, that takes me back. Back then I knew I wanted to have an opinionated site, I made a typo, and I even managed to take a poke at Microsoft for Mobile Favorites not working properly. :lol: I had hoped to have a contest organized for this birthday event, but between all the work our Big Thinker contest has taken and the travelling I've been doing this week, it just didn't come together.
So instead, here's a little impromptu contest: I'll give a 400 mhz/64 MB RAM Dell Axim X5 (slightly used - one of my review units, but still in excellent condition) to the person who posts the funniest/most touching/most interesting memory they have of this site. Did Pocket PC Thoughts ever make your day? Save your hide when something went wrong? Get you started with Pocket PCs? Change your mind about something? Made you a friend? Get you promoted? Lift your spirits? I'm looking for comments and stories that will put a smile on my face after three years of running this site, and the judgement for the winner will be completely subjective. I'm not looking for mindless brown-nosing, just some good stories. :-) I'll make my decision sometime on Tuesday, so you have a day or so to think about it.
And of course any general birthday thoughts are more than welcome. :mrgreen:
Here's that post, republished in all its glory:
"Welcome to Pocket PC Thoughts! This site is driven by Blogger, a really innovative way of doing what's called a "web log". A web log is similar to a journal - thoughts, discoveries, new information. The goal of this particular web log is to serve as a focal point for all my thoughts on the Pocket PC. If I find a cool new program, you'll hear about it here. If I discover a workaround for a flaw in the Pocket PC OS, you'll read it here. When I write new articles or columns that I want to draw your attention to, I'll mention it here. When I find a news article that I think others should read, the link will be posted here. This will also serve as a collection point for things that I can't put on PocketPC.com - things like registry hacks and my more, ah, aggressive opinions about certain things. My goal is to update this site at least once a day, sometimes more.
Everything here is my opinion, and does not reflect my role as PocketPC.com Contributing Editor or Microsoft MVP in any way. That said, I'm not planning on going overboard too much in this forum. I'm also not going to go back and edit things I've written, so if I was wrong about something, it will stay there forever. 'aint technology grand? I'll also be using a taxonomy of sorts - each Blog will be prefaced by an all-caps indicator of what it is. PROGRAM, THOUGHT, NEWS, SITE, etc. I imagine this taxonomy will evolve over time.
I'll probably set up some sort of notification system in the future, but in the meantime, why not create a Mobile Favorite of this page? Set it to update every morning and you'll always have the latest content on here. If it the Mobile Favorite does't break that is. :-) And if there are issues you'd like to have me address and talk about, or disagree with something I've said let me know. Please note that this email address isn't for questions about Pocket PC's - I'd prefer if you went to the Pocket PC Community Forums for that. Thanks!"
Ah, that takes me back. Back then I knew I wanted to have an opinionated site, I made a typo, and I even managed to take a poke at Microsoft for Mobile Favorites not working properly. :lol: I had hoped to have a contest organized for this birthday event, but between all the work our Big Thinker contest has taken and the travelling I've been doing this week, it just didn't come together.
So instead, here's a little impromptu contest: I'll give a 400 mhz/64 MB RAM Dell Axim X5 (slightly used - one of my review units, but still in excellent condition) to the person who posts the funniest/most touching/most interesting memory they have of this site. Did Pocket PC Thoughts ever make your day? Save your hide when something went wrong? Get you started with Pocket PCs? Change your mind about something? Made you a friend? Get you promoted? Lift your spirits? I'm looking for comments and stories that will put a smile on my face after three years of running this site, and the judgement for the winner will be completely subjective. I'm not looking for mindless brown-nosing, just some good stories. :-) I'll make my decision sometime on Tuesday, so you have a day or so to think about it.
And of course any general birthday thoughts are more than welcome. :mrgreen:
