It has been a long, long time since I first entered the digital world. 1989 to be exact. I was active on bulletin boards, then on the WWW. I used ICQ, MIRC, Chatrooms, all kinds of applications. I've met and made amazing, lifelong friends through the digital sphere.  I can't say that it has always been smooth sailing, because it hasn't, but I've always tried to keep ahead of the curve. I started this blog back in 2003 - 21 years ago now. It's been a long, strange, but mostly fun, trip. I've made a few chums along the way, broken some news and made some enemies doing it. So it goes really. Regrets? Only one, but I'm not going to tell what it is. See if you can find it. In order to keep up with the times, I've decided to move over to Substack . This will enable me the opportunity to reach far more people than this blog does, and also make a bit of money from my work. The content will be free, if you want it to be so. The difference is, if you want to suppo