Weak links

 As I've mentioned before, I like to see in Blogger's stats that someone has been looking at old blog posts of mine that I hadn't thought about for years - such as this one in which I start by mentioning The Weakest Link and move on to apologising for insulting the creator of Mullein Fields, a webcomic that has long since disappeared from the internet.

This is why the Wayback Machine is the most important thing in the world. When you see an old blog post that links to a disappeared page with the cryptic comment "this is me and my brother when we were that age", you can usually still rediscover exactly what it was talking about just by researching the web archive. Here it is:

Actually, seeing that old post again was a timely reminder that this is very much still me and my brother now - I did, after all, just post a blog last week in which I tell him I love him by writing an extensive essay about Alvin and the Chipmunks, insulting him subtly and slipping a message of affection in at the end. I mean, he was in the next room at the time I was writing it...

So thanks to the person or robot who went and had a look at that 2005 post of mine, because it shows you're keeping up very impressively with my current and past preoccupations! And can I repeat the request made in that post for more blog comments here, please? Say hello if you're out there! Stay in touch! I'm going to write about Excel and Superman and lots of other things in the near future!