Comment by Ken

Ken — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:24:44 +0000

Argh, I see what's been happening with passwords... I was wiping them out when I changed people's access levels. Yikes!

I've had to reset everyone's password. You should get an email.

Comment by Ken

Ken — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:01:32 +0000

Whoo, I see a bunch of people are registering. Thanks!

Sometimes it takes a little while to get the email with your validation code. I can't do much about that at the moment; you can blame the pinheads at GoDaddy.

Two people have told me that they couldn't log in with their password. I can't say exactly why that's happening, but if it happens to you, just shoot me an email and I can reset your account.

Blast From the Past

Ken — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:21:54 +0000

The process of going back and recategorizing old posts continues to make me well up with nostalgia. I looked at the first real blog post I wrote, and then I remembered: my online history goes back further than that post in 2003.

In fact, I had a web page all the way back in 1999. This was back when most of up were still on dial-up internet, when the term "Web 2.0" hadn't been invented, when the few people who had "home pages" on the Internet were posting garish flashing graphics and embedded music on GeoCities. (Whereas today, people post their garish flashing graphics and embedded music on MySpace. Progress!)

It took a lot of digging through old Zip disks and other archives, but I found that original web site, and I'm making it available in all its cringe-worthy glory for you to see... but only for registered users with level 2 access or higher. (Everyone registered as of the time I'm writing this is level 2 or higher; anyone who registers after this will be at level 1 unless I bump them up.)

Why am I doing this? It's not as if there's a lot of top-secret content on that old site (and in fact, it's possible to dig it up in the Internet archives, if you know where to look). No, there are two reasons for making it access-restricted: one, to encourage all my readers to go ahead and register, and two, to test the access control mechanisms that I'll use for private content in the future.

If you register and I know who you are, I'll bump your access up to level 2... and your reward will be, you'll get to see a truly ridiculous picture of me Photoshopped next to Stephanie Seymour.

If you've already got the access rights, click here.