Happy 2nd anniversary, Thought Box!

Today, May 30, marks the second anniversary of this blog. I wouldn’t have known and the day would have passed by just normally, but thanks to Google Calendar, the fact that it was already my blog’s 2nd anniversary gave me quite a shock!

I started writing here two years ago, and now this blog has accumulated:

• 176 posts
• 22 categories
• 586 tags, which I desperately need to clean up
• 313 comments, and best of all, no spam, thanks to Akismet!

Happy 1st Birthday to this Blog!

Wow! Believe it or not Thought Box is already at its one year birthday!

Sure, one years old and this blog is still in its infancy. But for me, it’s been a long trip down the road.

So let’s go back and take a look down TB Memory Lane:

30 years ago…

Quick Look: Happy 25th Birthday to the .com domain!

It’s debatable for me when the Internet actually started. Some say it was way back in World War II. Some say that CERN invented it, and there’s a million other stories of how the internet started, just floating around on the web. Well, the first domain name ever was Symbolics.com, which is now a blog. On this day in 1985, it became the first registered domain name on the internet. Now the internet is completely overrun by dot com domains, which is why we see .org, .info, .xxx, .eu, whatever.

Whenever it started, the Internet has made a huge difference in the world, both good and bad.

You can find a really cool map of the Internet here.

Happy 200th Birthday, Chopin!

Today, we celebrate the birthday of a historic composer, Frederic Chopin. Chopin was born in 1810 in Poland, and later moved to France. He was the poet of the piano, writing pieces with greater emotional depth than ever seen before. Although he rarely performed in public, his pieces show his virtuosic talent as a composer and a performer. He died in 1849, and his heart was put in a special container and now resides at a church.

For Chopin’s 200th birthday, I have listed some of my favorite pieces by him. Chopin wrote almost exclusively for the piano, and he admitted that he could not write for any other instrument.

Happy Anniversary!

At the time of posting this, I have officially had my Twitter account for EXACTLY one year now. Here are a few statistics about my Twitter account: