Apr 29 2008

Happy 6th Birthday Jemjabella!

Hip-hip hooray! My domain is 6 years old today. That’s 6 years of pointless ranting, narcissistic/egotistical BS and the best damned awards on the planet. I’m still quite enjoying the whole thing too.

I hope those of you who joined me in celebration last time will raise a glass to another fruitful year pwning the Internets with my l33t ninja skills.

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Warning

This post is over 6 months old. This means that, despite my best intentions, it may no longer be accurate. Age, motherhood, experience, loss... these things have all changed me from when this blog was started back in the heady (ha) days of my youth.

As much as I would like to go back and edit 10 years of archives to provide an insight into the 'me' of now — to update coding snippets and revise website advice — it would probably take years to do so (by which point I'd have to start again!) This would defeat the point of keeping these archives anyway.

Please take these posts for what they are: a brief look into my past, my history, my journey.

70 Responses so far

  1. Amber says: April 29, 2008 at 6:26 pm # ·

    Celebration? Of six years of torture? ;)

  2. Hanna says: April 29, 2008 at 6:38 pm # ·

    Well Happy Birthday! And I guess also thanks for all the torture :P

  3. Vixx says: April 29, 2008 at 6:40 pm # ·

    Aw, happy birthday Jemjabella. :)

    V xx

  4. Larissa says: April 29, 2008 at 6:54 pm # ·

    Haha. Congrats, Jem! The interest wouldn’t be the same without your blog.

  5. Larissa says: April 29, 2008 at 6:55 pm # ·

    … The interest? Wow, I can’t type today o_O The /internet/, I meant!

  6. Vera says: April 29, 2008 at 6:56 pm # ·

    *rushes in and miraculously manages not to spill the champagne* YAAAY! Many happy returns to JEMJABELLA!!! :D

  7. Amelie says: April 29, 2008 at 6:57 pm # ·

    Hmph. My site (content-wise – the name’s changed a few times) will be 6 in December. How dare you beat me? :P

  8. Alexandra says: April 29, 2008 at 6:59 pm # ·

    Yay! *blows horn* Here’s to six more years!

  9. Katie says: April 29, 2008 at 7:13 pm # ·

    Happy birthday! And here’s to many more!! :D

  10. Hev says: April 29, 2008 at 7:15 pm # ·

    Happy Birthday, Jemjabella. And here’s to many more!! *lifts glass in celebration with you*

  11. Lene says: April 29, 2008 at 7:16 pm # ·

    Woo! 6 years is a long time :)
    Happy birthday to Jemjabella! *raises glass*

  12. Peter Green says: April 29, 2008 at 7:20 pm # ·

    Congratulations on thinking (wrongly) for six years that you are ultimately better than us! ;-)

  13. Vasili says: April 29, 2008 at 7:21 pm # ·

    This is really weird, I was just thinking about this like early today…

  14. Aisling says: April 29, 2008 at 7:42 pm # ·

    YAY! BONNE FETE!

  15. Sarah says: April 29, 2008 at 7:44 pm # ·

    YAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

  16. Rachael says: April 29, 2008 at 7:45 pm # ·

    Congratulations, Jemmie. :)

    Here’s to the next 6. *raises glass*

  17. Rhys says: April 29, 2008 at 7:47 pm # ·

    Happy Birthday! You’re one month and a day older than me!

  18. Nyx says: April 29, 2008 at 7:50 pm # ·

    Bonne fête jemjabella!

  19. Lil says: April 29, 2008 at 8:04 pm # ·

    Would you like some viagra or perhaps a penis enhancer to enrich the celebrations? ;) Congrats!

  20. Cory says: April 29, 2008 at 8:09 pm # ·

    Happy birthday, Jemjabella.co.uk!

  21. Mike Haddad says: April 29, 2008 at 8:51 pm # ·

    I think I’m going to start a Canadian chapter of your fan club.

  22. Fran says: April 29, 2008 at 8:59 pm # ·

    Self-deprecates with diasarming charm too. Congrats :-)

  23. Fran says: April 29, 2008 at 9:04 pm # ·

    Ha ha shoulda known strip_tags would kill my lame jest.
    Maybe if I use htmlspecialchars ….
    <jem> … self-deprecates etc.

    Anyway I put “jem” in an html tag. You had to be there. Meh.

  24. Stepherz says: April 29, 2008 at 9:24 pm # ·

    Here’s to another six years!

  25. Raina says: April 29, 2008 at 9:31 pm # ·

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEMJABELLA! :)

  26. Annie says: April 29, 2008 at 9:40 pm # ·

    What everyone else says. :P

    Happy 6th Birthday!

  27. Chans says: April 29, 2008 at 9:56 pm # ·

    Happy 6th birthday Jem! Here’s to (at least) 6 more.

  28. Mackenzie says: April 29, 2008 at 10:21 pm # ·

    … this is a joke, right?

    Haha, kidding (:

    Happy Birthday Jemjabella! =P

  29. Stephanie says: April 29, 2008 at 10:39 pm # ·

    You forgot to mention the entire evolution from those iframes and custom cursors to the standards ninja you’ve become today ;)

  30. Sarah says: April 29, 2008 at 10:53 pm # ·

    Happy Birthday!

  31. Louise says: April 29, 2008 at 11:27 pm # ·

    w00t! :D

  32. Amanda says: April 29, 2008 at 11:42 pm # ·

    Happy birthday! I’ve been around for four years of it…may it live forever!

  33. Dee says: April 30, 2008 at 12:02 am # ·

    Grats dude! You’re e-old! :P

  34. Cel says: April 30, 2008 at 12:19 am # ·

    Happy birthday! …jemjabella.co.uk!
    But I’m not celebrating with champagne. Wouldn’t be legal. :(

  35. Regina says: April 30, 2008 at 1:46 am # ·

    I shall raise my glass of orange juice to another successful year!
    Happy birthday jemjabella.co.uk!

  36. Belinda says: April 30, 2008 at 1:50 am # ·

    Whoo happy birthday to your domain!!! Mine is also turning 6 later this year. :D

  37. Barbilee says: April 30, 2008 at 2:12 am # ·

    Happpy b-day to your domain :) and much more luck on it :)

  38. mae says: April 30, 2008 at 2:39 am # ·

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Here’s for more years and more l33tness to come :D

  39. Camille says: April 30, 2008 at 4:30 am # ·

    Happy Birthday to jemjabella.co.uk. for 6 years!

    Now…where’s the rum?

  40. Vickie says: April 30, 2008 at 5:12 am # ·

    Here’s to 6 years of Jemjabella pwning them all!

    Wait… pwning us all?!

  41. Enzo says: April 30, 2008 at 5:35 am # ·

    Three cheers for six years!

  42. Mumblies says: April 30, 2008 at 5:49 am # ·

    6 Years? Crikey that makes me feel really old!
    Happy Birthday Jemjabella :)

  43. echo says: April 30, 2008 at 6:43 am # ·

    Happy 6th, Jemjabella!

  44. Katy says: April 30, 2008 at 8:51 am # ·

    have you made it a birthday cake?

  45. Ilona says: April 30, 2008 at 10:28 am # ·

    Ooh, yay for jemjabella! Happy birthday! :D

  46. Marieke says: April 30, 2008 at 11:03 am # ·

    Six years… that means you’re website will learn to read and all right?
    Congrats and good luck with the upcomming 6 (and more) years!

  47. Christina says: April 30, 2008 at 12:03 pm # ·

    Wow, congratulations! I haven’t been able to keep a domain for that long. :/

  48. Anna says: April 30, 2008 at 1:11 pm # ·

    Yay, happy sixth birthday jemjabella =]

  49. Ashley says: April 30, 2008 at 1:51 pm # ·

    Congrats Jem! :)

  50. Melissa says: April 30, 2008 at 7:29 pm # ·

    YAY! Happy beeeee-day, Jemjabella.co.uk! WOOO! :D

    Random note…my comment is the 50th…and so when I viewed both this post and last years post they both had 49 comments equal. O.o I’m just leet that’s all.

  51. Saya says: April 30, 2008 at 7:46 pm # ·

    Vi jou verjaars dag jemjabella! Haha, though I’d make my comment a little different- Happy birthday to jemjabella! 6 years is a long time, congrats and good luck making it to seven!

  52. Christine says: April 30, 2008 at 8:50 pm # ·

    Happy Birthday! *hugs and kisses*

  53. Trisha says: April 30, 2008 at 9:14 pm # ·

    Well, happy birthday!

  54. Chris says: April 30, 2008 at 11:15 pm # ·

    Happy Birthday! :) (YAY for the pants awards! :))

  55. Ramsha says: May 1, 2008 at 1:56 am # ·

    Yay! Happy Birthday Jemjabella! I’m hoping it’ll be here for it’s decade celebration! :)

  56. Emma says: May 1, 2008 at 3:17 am # ·

    Yay six years! So old!

  57. Yara says: May 1, 2008 at 4:29 am # ·

    Happy Birthday Jemjabella :) !

  58. Shari says: May 1, 2008 at 9:21 am # ·

    Happy 6th, Jemjabella :)

    A toast for more pants, more l33t, and more torture.

  59. ApplesH says: May 1, 2008 at 10:24 am # ·

    Happy Birthday!

  60. Xuan says: May 1, 2008 at 2:13 pm # ·

    Happeh Burfdai! *pats it on the head*

    And may there be a ridiculously large amount of years of more l33t. FWEE!

  61. Chantelle says: May 1, 2008 at 4:01 pm # ·

    Happy Birthday! Jemjabella is growing up into a more elite and popular domain! :D

  62. Jessica says: May 1, 2008 at 5:35 pm # ·

    Happy belated birthday to your domain, Jem! :)

  63. Aimée says: May 1, 2008 at 7:08 pm # ·

    Congrats and keep up the great work/entertainment/etc!

  64. Sarai says: May 1, 2008 at 9:20 pm # ·

    Wow, six years. And I can’t keep a blog open more than a year. Congrats :D

  65. Cristina says: May 1, 2008 at 10:38 pm # ·

    Yippee for 6 years of sexy pants!

  66. Shao says: May 2, 2008 at 2:34 am # ·

    6 years? Wow! Happy birthday! :D

  67. Megan says: May 2, 2008 at 1:03 pm # ·

    Happy Birthday Jemjabella.co.uk! :) Six years is a long time.

  68. Brenda says: May 2, 2008 at 5:38 pm # ·

    Haha, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Jemjabella!

    My domain is seven years old, albeit nowhere as established as you are!

  69. Mariah says: May 3, 2008 at 4:09 am # ·

    Happy belated birthday jemjabella! :)

  70. Regina says: May 3, 2008 at 4:25 pm # ·

    Happy birthday jemjabella.co.uk. =] I can never stick to a site for more then a year. XD