{"id":575,"date":"2008-04-25T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2017-01-25T09:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:42:49","slug":"a-thousand-pieces-of-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"A thousand pieces of my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0pt 4px 10pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; float: left; color: #cc0000; font-size: 66px;\">1000<\/div>\n<p>This is blog posting number 1000 for me. One thousand pieces of my mind in just over two years.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February 2006, I launched this blog with a <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1571\">piece<\/a> entitled &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">It&#8217;s a start<\/span>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I quickly followed up with a <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1570\">posting<\/a> about the newly released Decision from the CRTC on the Deferral Account and another <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1569\">posting<\/a> later that evening that described the public notice on the telemarketing Do Not Call List. Who would have thought that two years later, both of those proceedings continue to provide fodder for this site &#8211; DNCL scheduled to be implemented later this year and the recent Commission, court and cabinet appeals for the deferral account&#8217;s followup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/archive\/ENG\/Decisions\/2008\/dt2008-1.htm\">Decision 2008-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your loyal readership, your comments, your calls and email messages. Thank you to itWorld for <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=584\">recognizing this site<\/a> as one of Canada&#8217;s top 10 technology blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks as well for visiting the advertisers and thereby supporting my caffeine addiction. The cheques buy me a bag of good espresso beans each month.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I can continue to provoke you to come back for perspectives, musings and every so often, a little entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>One thousand pieces. Not a bad start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1000 This is blog posting number 1000 for me. One thousand pieces of my mind in just over two years. Back in February 2006, I launched this blog with a piece entitled &#8220;It&#8217;s a start&#8220;. 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