Tenth Anniversary!

You’re invited to join us here at Listics on December 31, 2024 to celebrate our tenth anniversary blogging under the Sandhill name. Looking back It’s hard to believe that we have been posting better than three posts a day for almost ten years now. Singapore, the software we originally wrote to handle the load, is still used by many bloggers in the community. We’ve had defectors over the years… there were some who thought that distribution of hand copied information using wide ruled paper and number two pencils was as efficient and drew a wider circle of readers. They were wrong. Where is the Big Chief Notepad krewe now?

We’ve seen changes around here, arrivistes with their own proprietary databases named after Philippine cities, and open source moguls on a mission from the anti-Bill. But the thriving community of Listicistas (and — truth be told — the Lister sisters) who visit here every day by the thousands provide meaning enough for a people-pleaser like yours truly. We don’t have to keep up with technology, pay little attention to biology, don’t know much about history, it has in fact been a mellow Sam Cooke ride for the last ten years or so, and we are proud to celebrate the first tenth anniversary in blogland… join us New Years Eve Day all day for a retrospective.

Don’t know much about history

Don’t know much biology
Don’t know much about a science book
Don’t know much about the French I took
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me too
What a wonderful world this would be

Arrington Kisses Loic’s Ass

Arrington and Le Meur, legends in their own minds…

Mike Arrington, who respects neither free speech nor his employees has canned Sam Sethi from the UK TechCrunch webpub. Sam’s better off. Now if Six Apart investors can see fit to influence Six Apart management to dump Loic Le Meur and hire Sam, then there will be much nastiness driven from blogaria and justice will be served. Seems obvious to me that Le Meur is just another one of the flying monkeys, like Arrington, grabbing for Internet wealth and otherwise pretty much a nonentity.

Grab this, LuLu.

Coupla Links

Out of Twitter via Chris Heilman, this link to Canongate, an interesting publisher’s site. And via Liz Ditz via Ishbadiddle, an introduction to skeuomorphism.