I started bloging mid-June 2000.

I've quit a few times.

I've started again.

I've written a heck of a lot of crap.

The archives of my old blog exist but I have no desire to port them to this blog.

Time.

The "Guantanamo Bay suicides are an act of war" thing reminded me of something that happened at a previous job.

Part of a company I used to work for was bought by another company and I moved with it with a few other people. Two of us were programmers working on the clients that came with the purchase.

In one week I was sick, then he was sick, then I was sick again. The sicknesses were legitimate although I fully admit we both hated it there and were actively looking for a way out. On the Thursday I was called into the office and asked straight out if we were "up to something". I had no idea what he was talking about and was too sick to be polite. I said, "what?" He said, "It seems to me that you are both trying to sabotage your work here by being sick in shifts." I sneezed at him and said, "I can't speak for my fellow employees, however I am most definitely sick."

The company was sick. The company was paranoid.

Not long after the other employee was "made redundant" and a few weeks after that I quit.

I'm still in the job I quit for and pretty darn happy in it.

They never accused me of sabotage.