Jinn of Quality and Risk

I started this weblog one year ago with the following description: a polymorphic publication on quality, risk, and other gems. I've posted 757 items in that period, i.e. about two per day on average — the second year average will certainly be higher :-). I've also received more than 45,000 items through the news aggregator, an average of 125 items per day (I don't read it all, I scan).

Thanks to Dave Winer, for keeping me interested and making me laugh with DaveNet ever since I found it in 1996, and kudos to the people in his company UserLand, for the wondeful, liberating Radio UserLand. Dave is an inspiring person who deserves more recognition. It would be great to meet him in person one day, if a jinn would grant me an anniversary wish. 

On March 21st, 2002, The Guardian won a crucial round in its battle to challenge a 154-year-old law which makes it a criminal offence, punishable by life imprisonment, to advocate abolition of the monarchy in print. Hey, I support the abolition of monarchy, anywhere it might (still) be found. Hope I'm not in trouble.