As I've said many times before there's nothing magical about the "blog", and certainly nothing exalted about the "blogger", but yesterday (July 21) was the second birthday of now.rickeyre.com in a blog format.

It started briefly on the Mambo CMS (now Joomla) before I turned to Wordpress. (Messages dated before July 2004 on this blog have been re-posted retrospectively, having been written elsewhere.)

Some familiar themes were present in those first two posts of July 2004. First up, was the start of a favourite series of mine... John Howard's total apathy towards one of the major humanitarian crises of our time, in Darfur. As subsequent items have shown, nothing has changed.

Second item for July 2004 was my first post on the impending, and at that stage undated, Federal Election. I announced my endorsement for the re-election of the ALP's Anthony Albanese as my local member, including a classic quote from Hansard in support. I still admire Albanese, but not so the Labor Party as a whole, especially at State and Local Government level, as later entries have shown.

August 2004, and the Athens Olympics set my blog alight, but alas I don't have the time to produce that sort of intensity any more.

While my personal life has changed in the past two years, my worldview has been reinforced. There's plenty to maintain faith about, and I'll be here writing about it. (Hopefully in better constructed sentences than that one.)