Blogiversary

As of today, I've been doing this blog for exactly twenty years.  When I started it, I never gave any thought to how long it might last, but I'm sure that if someone had told me it would be this long, I'd have been surprised.  I'm sixty-five now, so the blog has been going for almost a third of my entire life.  There's never been any other single project I stuck with for this long.

I didn't put a huge amount of thought into the name at the time.  "Infidel" refers to my strong anti-religion viewpoint, while 753 refers to 753 BCE, the traditional date of the founding of Rome.  It still fits well enough.  The blog covers a wide range of topics, but Western civilization and opposing religion remain central to my sense of self.

It has evolved over time, of course.  A lot of my early posts were just one or two sentences containing a link to something I found interesting.  I started the weekly link round-ups so I would have someplace to put all the links instead of cluttering up the blog with a separate post for each one.

The blog probably won't last another twenty years, since I myself probably won't.  But I have no plans to stop any time soon.  The blog will probably last as long as I do.