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Ever since my father brought home the TI99/4a 1 around 1980, I have been interested in IT. I went to become a bachelor in informatics and later on did Cognitive Science (MA) because it was the next logical step (AI, Neural Networks, Cognitive Ergonomics). This website and later on the weblog are logical steps in the long flow of home computing, programming, computer clubs, cassette, floppy, cd, gaming and so on. Before the Internet I was doing 14k4 BBS-ing and when I had the chance in 1996, on the University, to spend my days behind “the Internet” I started fiddling around with it, exploring it and logically made my first html homepage. So in 1996 I started this website on the University in Nijmegen, moved parts to Xoom and Geocities, and I moved it to my own server somewhat later (Sambar 0), adding risk related information, funny pictures my cv and so on. During 1999 I had a regular outburst of blogs on the Risk games i played on Microsoft Zone (which I include as my first blogpostings, you may discuss this). I moved on to hosting it on fortune cities (couldn’t sleep when my harddisk, next to my bed was making overhours) and adding “the daily link”, a javascript generated blog. At the end of 2000 I made the switch to Pitas and then to Blogger , where the real load of normal blogs followed. Soon afterwards I put it under de-leau.com 1 (PR5), went BloggerPro, where I codesigned the infamous X-comments for blogcommenting and a basic asp weblog functionality tool 0, followed by leau.net (PR5), where I wrote an extensive ASP.NET XML based front-end to Blogger (still viewable at de-leau.com 1). Starting from September 2006 I migrated to WordPress under cogmios.nl 1(PR5). Why WordPress? Because I didn’t have the energy to update my own code with all the goodies which a large group of developers build into one product. It hurts, but if I see what Wordpress gives me I am, for now, quite happy with this tool. And then… november 2007, I moved yet again to Edward.de.leau.net 1, since this domain name reflects more a “personal blog”, so why the heck not under my own name. Ofcourse, for the 4th time I lose all search engine references and all “rankings”, but let’s see if we can get there again. During the beginning of 2008 I then moved further into this direction and added my wife, son and cat 
under the same heading and under their respective subdomains to mirror the fact that I am growing into a father and prepare my son for his weblog adventures
About the content: the oldest still running Dutch weblog
This is a private weblog from a pretty Beta guy and it is basically about anything. Which also means it is frightening for visitors who expect to see “everything about gadgets”. Yet again it’s also no lifelog, It’s something in between, meaning it has a very low attention profile and a SEO-expert would become very sad. Still I welcome you to come back here, once in a while there are some interesting things (and ever so more there are times when it is absolutely not interesting). I invented the term “tickle blog” for it. It just tickles you once and again about a variety on subjects, not too professional, just raw material. In terms of visitors it means the same, on some occasions there were 30.000 visitors on a day on others just 500.
I’m trying to post about my interests which includes interesting things I find but also once in a while about my atheistic (Brights) and skeptic nature. I’m in the process of tagging all content to make it easier to read more of the past 8000 postings in groups but this is harsh work.
It can be discussed but chances are this is the oldest still running Dutch weblog. Obviously the past is shady. If I take my Risk bloggings it probably is, but I do remember during 2000 that I tried to be on one of the first weblog directories but was refused because it only contained “interestings daily links”. Independent of this it is one of the oldest still running weblogs and with it’s +8500 blogpostings typed by 1 person, it has made th #6 position as one of the most prolific 0 in the top 100 Prolific Bloggers.
I was blogging long before zillions of people started, which is a quite cool idea. One of these days I’m going to be an Internet visionary (kuch!).
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