{"id":16448,"date":"2020-01-02T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=16448"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:34:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:34:14","slug":"on-this-day-jan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/02\/on-this-day-jan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jan 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I&#8217;m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past. Here are my past posts for January 2\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>35<\/strong> posts previously published on January 2nd<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/02\/year-50-day-245\/\">Year 50 Day 245<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My first day back in the office at work after the holidays. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/02\/year-50-day-245\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/01\/02\/jungle-cruise\/\">&#x1f3a5; Jungle Cruise<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Perfect lightweight and low-stress entertainment for a lazy Sunday afternoon. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/01\/02\/jungle-cruise\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/01\/02\/tbr-pile-reading-challenge\/\">TBR Pile Reading Challenge &#x1f4da;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A reading challenge I just might try to do this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/01\/02\/tbr-pile-reading-challenge\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/02\/25081\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Happy National Science Fiction day! Right now I&#8217;m reading Ursula K. LeGuin&#8217;s The Left Hand of Darkness. What SF book are you reading today (or what was the last one you read)? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/01\/02\/25081\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/02\/rss-feed-weirdness-and-php-debugging\/\">RSS Feed Weirdness and PHP Debugging<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Successfully debugging PHP code in the WordPress 'Post Today' plugin. I feel accomplished! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/02\/rss-feed-weirdness-and-php-debugging\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/02\/23214\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Happy National Science Fiction Day, everyone! Spend some time with a favorite SF short story, book, TV show, or film to celebrate. &#x1f4da;&#x1f3ac;&#x1f596; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/02\/23214\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/02\/on-this-day-jan-2\/\">On This Day: Jan 2<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/02\/on-this-day-jan-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/12723\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">\u201cSen. Romney&#8217;s statement is not a profile in courage. Rather it is another example of the emptiness of the #nevertrump movement &#8212; all talk and no action.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/12723\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/hugo-best-novel-reading\/\">Hugo Best Novel Reading<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've decided to work my way through reading all of the Best Novel Hugo Award winners over the coming year (or however long it actually takes), and will use this page to track my progress. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/hugo-best-novel-reading\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/12711\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Book one of 2019: The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; #hugowinner &#x1f4da; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/12711\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/12700\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Personal goal for this year (or, well, however long it takes): Read every Hugo Award Best Novel (including Retro Hugos). To date, I&#8217;ve read 21 of the 73 (28%), but it&#8217;s been ages for some, so I might or might not re-read those as I go along. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/12700\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/linkdump-for-november-29th-through-january-2nd\/\">Linkdump for November 29th through January 2nd<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between November 29th and January 2nd. \u2022 365 IETF RFCs: a 50th anniversary dive \u2022 Is Grover swearing? No, it's in your ears. \u2022 Against Peter Jackson&rsquo;s \"They Shall Not Grow Old\" \u2022 On radical kindness (another aspect of hopepunk) \u2022 The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/linkdump-for-november-29th-through-january-2nd\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/02\/19106\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">DJ W\u00fcdi emerging from hibernation and prepping for @norwescon #nwc39. Gear is an iPad and @numark_dj iDJ Pro. (2\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/02\/19106\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/02\/looking-for-a-shmoe\/\">Looking for a Shmoe<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Bones is one of the better shows on TV right now, but this short little clip from S10E08 made me quite literally laugh out loud. Just a wonderful bit of silliness. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/02\/looking-for-a-shmoe\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/02\/this-years-health-efforts\/\">This Year&#8217;s Health Efforts<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">After letting my exercise regimen fall apart in November, it's time to get going again. For my own accountability, this is some rambling about my current status and what goals I have moving into the new year. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/02\/this-years-health-efforts\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/02\/17190\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Six months of wearing contacts, and they still kinda seem like magic. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/02\/17190\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2013<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/02\/housekeeping-2\/\">Housekeeping<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I did some housekeeping on my Flickr account and severely culled my contacts--from somewhere over 250 to slightly under 90. A little housekeeping every now and then is a good thing. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/02\/housekeeping-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/02\/difficult-listening-hour-02v2\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 02v2<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The second of my old collection of mix sessions that I'm posting. A little longer than the last one, and a little more pop-y. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/02\/difficult-listening-hour-02v2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/02\/books-books-books-and-more-books\/\">Books, Books, Books, and More Books!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For a few years now, I've been using LibraryThing to track my book collection. Ever since Prairie and I moved in together, we've been occasionally talking about adding her books to the listing...and now, the project is done: our entire library -- all 1,465 books -- is cataloged! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/02\/books-books-books-and-more-books\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/01\/02\/condescended\/\">Condescended<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Still -- not _every_ geek out there works for Microsoft and has a gazillion expendable dollars..._or_ sees the need to toss out a perfectly good (and, actually, very nice) TV set that works fine, aside from not having the ATSC tuner. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/01\/02\/condescended\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/02\/2005-traffic-report\/\">2005 Traffic Report<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've been using the free traffic monitoring service StatCounter for some time now to get an idea of how much traffic I'm pulling in. Here's a look at the past year's traffic for Eclecticism. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/02\/2005-traffic-report\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/02\/visual-halo\/\">Visual Halo<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Nice and easy, and now I've got my own DVD of Nine Inch Nails videos &mdash; and even when they are officially released on DVD, I'd lay good money down that the collection won't include the Broken short film, so I've got that, too. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/02\/visual-halo\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/02\/recycle\/\">Recycle!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">According to the Seattle PI, recycling is mandatory. So what to do when my apartment building doesn't offer ways to recycle? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/02\/recycle\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/02\/dvd-r-dvdr-argh\/\">DVD-R? DVD+R? Argh!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Boo to the industry for having two competing and incompatible DVD formats, though, especially so similarly named. If I hadn't had some vague memory of reading about the different formats at some point in the past, I'd probably just have assumed that there was something wrong with my computer or the Superdrive, and been a lot more frustrated and aggravated than necessary. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/02\/dvd-r-dvdr-argh\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/02\/rollback\/\">Rollback<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A little morbid, but it's just how my mind works at times &mdash; when all's said and done, is someone going to have to roll back the World Population Counter by however many hundreds of thousands of people died in the tsunamis and their aftereffects? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/02\/rollback\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/02\/we-all-have-our-priorities\/\">We all have our priorities<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">You choose dinner over IRC? HEATHEN. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/02\/we-all-have-our-priorities\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/02\/blog-of-the-month\/\">Blog of the Month<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This was nice &mdash; I got picked as 'Blog of the Month' by AndrewBlog. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/02\/blog-of-the-month\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/02\/top-ten-web-design-mistakes\/\">Top ten web design mistakes<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Usability guru Jakob Nielsen posted his list of the year's top ten web design mistakes, and while it's aimed more at commercial sites, I thought I'd take a quick gander and see if there are any that I should worry about. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/02\/top-ten-web-design-mistakes\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/02\/fire-your-friends\/\">Fire your friends<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Okay, so your friend's passed out from all the booze he drank at your New Years party. Okay, so the old 'hand-in-a-bowl-of-warm-water' or 'shaving-cream-on-the-face' tricks are pretty old. But is dousing his leg in lighter fluid and setting him on fire really the best and brightest idea for a prank? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/02\/fire-your-friends\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/02\/beyond-the-rumor-sites\/\">Beyond the rumor sites<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This time, around, however, Apple -- rather than staying their characteristically silent self -- is doing the online equivalent of tossing a goldfish into a pirahna tank. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/02\/beyond-the-rumor-sites\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/02\/from-usenet-1202-0143\/\">[From Usenet: 1.2.02 0143]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">First off, I hope your experiences with OS X continue to improve, as you indicated they had started to in a followup post. Figured I could go ahead and jump in the fray, though... ;) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/02\/from-usenet-1202-0143\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>1995<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/01\/02\/from-usenet-1295-0638\/\">[From Usenet 1.2.95 0638]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">For those who might be interested, Critters Buggin' played a New Year's party up here in Anchorage, Alaska. Pretty damn good show, too. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/01\/02\/from-usenet-1295-0638\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/01\/02\/from-usenet-1295-0541-2\/\">[From Usenet: 1.2.95 0541]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A friend told me that reznor had done some work with them, so I went out and picked up their first album, only to figure out trent was nowhere on that, but was still a really good disc. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/01\/02\/from-usenet-1295-0541-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/01\/02\/from-usenet-1295-0541\/\">[From Usenet: 1.2.95 0541]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I might as well join in the fray...`<grin>` Semi-lurker here...been reading for quite a while, do occasinally post bits and pieces... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/01\/02\/from-usenet-1295-0541\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/01\/02\/from-usenet-1295-0448\/\">[From Usenet: 1.2.95 0448]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">True, Bytet is quite fun...as is Fsunjibleableje (if you ever caught them...great early Einsturzende Neubauten type industrial). 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