This is my 100th post on this blog.

Wow. I didn’t think that I would make it, but persistance pays off. What do they say? Do something at least 20 times for it to become habit? If only losing weight were so simple.

Having hosting the Wambooli site since 1997, I’ve always wanted to keep the content updated and fresh. One way I went about that goal was to create a newsletter back in 2002. Rather than put the newsletter on the site, however, I chose to e-mail it out.

My newsletter, the Weekly Wambooli Salad was very popular and had thousands of readers. Writing the newsletter was easy, but sending it out every Sunday required major work. So I dropped the newsletter in 2005. (You can still get it in bound, book form, check out my title list for the Weekly Wambooli Salad books.)

After the newsletter perished, I tried running a blog. The software was awful and awkward to maintain. I stopped writing the blog, but I still wanted to have some good, updated content on Wambooli.

Late last year I found the WordPress software and tried it out. I was thrilled. At the same time I was teaching myself PHP and MySQL, which are the software tools used by WordPress for this blog. So using and customizing this blog came naturally for me. That was the easy part. The difficult part, as anyone who writes a blog knows, is actually writing the blog.

For the past few months, I’ve consistently written blog posts three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Keeping to that schedule has helped make this blog successful. Plus the software has scheduling abilities. So, for example, when I was on vacation earlier this year, I was able to write and schedule all the blog posts before I left. That’s the kind of convenience computer software should be known for.

Anyway, 100 posts down, many more to come. Thanks for reading.