the daily snivel

The Daily Snivel celebrates its eighth anniversary this week, which I don't mind saying puts it as one of the oldest (though also one of the least well known) continuous on-line journals around, pre-dating the advent of blogs by several years. It all goes back to some simple complaining here in April 1997, coded and archived by hand (versus the newfangled blogging software that eventually came along and which I resisted quite stubbornly until I realized how handy it was), and ever since then it's been a lot of that winning formula: boy meets girl, boy is infatuated with girl, boy loses girl, boy rants about conservatives and eventually meets another girl.

Thanks for eight great years.