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The first of the last, last lazysupper Harnessing the incredible (still-free) power of The Wayback Machine, I have retrieved the earliest available post on lazysupper.com. While not 100% certain, I’m pretty sure this is from the second iteration of my seldom-viewed site. It’s a post from January 2006 about Canada’s PMPM—the Honorable Prime Minister Paul Martin—leaving office and Stephen Harper slithering into office. Departin’ Martin, Harper’s Just Startin’ The results of Canada’s 36th general election should come as a surprise to no one. It was obvious that the “tide” was turning, but it should also have been obvious that it wouldn’t be a tsunami. We were all fed up with the feds since the sponsorship scandal broke, but it’s been clear that Canadians weren’t jumping with joy onto the Conservative bandwagon. Personally, I was expecting another (albeit it narrower) Liberal minority government. ...

I decided to go lightweight and wordpress-free for the first time with lazysupper.com. The previous version (though not the oldest) still lives at lazysupper.wordpress.com. The earliest posts, I’m afraid, are lost to the ether of history. Get down, Mark! While I like the simplicity and usability of a web UI, I’ve also become a fan of markdown. And having my content serparate and platform agnostic in .md files is highly appealing. (Which is the primary reason for giving headless a shot.)