Happy 10 year anniversary to me!
It just hit me the other day – I’m a sucker for waxing nostalgic and maudlin reminiscing – when I was trying to remember the last time I wrote a post (nearly 5 months ago), it dawned on me that the 10 year anniversary of me starting my blogging ‘career’ ( editor’s note : we can’t come up with a better word) was fast approaching. It was actually 4 February 2009 that the Layman’s Guide to International Relations was launched , to minor fanfare, and it ran for some 2 years before being reincarnated right here as Funfare for the Common Man. ( editor’s update : this was post was mainly written late January 2019 – it’s now no longer ‘fast approaching’ but has instead come and gone.) It’s about quality over quantity, however. Those 2 years were pretty fun and epic, at least for me. (I’ve mentioned this before – why the blog name change? Why the switch to a new title and format? It’s all there in the archive, but I will only say this – my original choice of title, The Thoughtful ...