The DrikoLand Blog is one year old today! Although the site has been up and running since 1995 (thank you very much!), it took me until last year to dive into the Blogosphere. Discovering and using a blog interface has been sheer joy, as it allows me to update fairly regularly without having to slog through the tedium of HTML coding, although I still futz with my template more than I probably need to :-).
I had initially intended to use the blog as a place to let people know when I updated the ‘80s part of my site, which gets a lot more traffic than the blog does but is largely static. By the way, I’m about to break I just broke 400,000 hits on the ’80s site; another reason to celebrate! However, I’ve never had the time to properly, regularly update that site, unfortunately, so “update” posts are infrequent at best, although I really hope to remedy that soon. Mostly, I’ve been blogging interesting, funny stories that I used to mass e-mail to friends, concentrating on some of my favorite subjects like the ’80s, The Simpsons, aviation, and photography. I haven’t done as much freeform journal blogging as I’d like to, but that may yet change. In any case, hopefully the posts have been entertaining, thought-provoking, and diverse enough to keep people interested. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, criticisms, or compliments ;-).
Although at first it seemed like the site got off to a slow start, with just friends checking it out semi-regularly, it seems that I’m gradually getting more exposure and seeing some new faces. However, it would be great if more of you posted some comments to boost my ego a little. 
I shouldn’t close this post out without givin’ a shout out to my peeps Shaft and Czar, two good friends and occasional co-posters that have added their touch to the site as well. Their efforts are very much appreciated and too infrequent! And thanks to everyone who has stopped by and visited, especially those die-hard regulars who take the time to add their $0.02 to the blog.
