Twenty years of blogging

Twenty years ago today, on May 4th, 2005, I wrote the first post on Lux Ex Umbra, titled Canada, SIGINT, and this blog.

If we count the long-since-departed website I built in the mid-1990s, which was also called Lux Ex Umbra, I've been posting online on this subject for closer to 30 years. Whew.

If you're thinking of writing a blog on an extremely niche topic, I wouldn't necessarily advise you to choose one for which most of the likely audience is permanently bound to secrecy. It does not make for a highly interactive experience.

But the process of writing it has helped me to better understand at least a little of what goes on in the Canadian SIGINT program and sometimes eventually to correct some of my many mistakes and misconceptions, so it has been useful to me.

I hope that whatever readership I may have had here over the years has also found it useful, informative, or at least occasionally interesting.

It has been fun. Yes, I do have a strange idea of fun.

Health and other circumstances permitting (so far, so good), I expect to continue posting here for some time to come.