Suixuan opened for business on July 31, 2005, on Yiku Blog.
On December 10, 2010, I switched blogs to Ixiezi. My original plan was to make it a transit station and first move the articles over to WordPress. Later I did settle down there for a while as well, but for various reasons I ultimately gave it up.
On January 8, 2011, I finally made up my mind to buy my own virtual space and independent domain name, and truly set foot on the proper road of an “independent blog”; before I knew it, almost a year and a half had passed.
As early as July 23, 2007, I had already published the 500th blog post—though later, when I reorganized things during the move, some old entries were merged, so the 500 posts at that time are now really fewer than 450.
From 0 to 500 took less than two years, but from 500 to 1000 took five years. It is clear that my writing frequency has been declining year by year. Still, the blog in the beginning was mainly reading notes and papers, plus some miscellaneous jottings, whereas now writing a blog has increasingly become an independent activity in itself; that is to say, blog writing is neither an article nor a note, nor is it like the odds and ends I used to write in a weekly notebook—it is simply blog writing. Of course, in many cases this is a bad thing, so much so that it has hindered my enthusiasm for and habit of writing proper academic papers, but I have let things take their course, and can only hope that I may yet strike a balance.
Up to now, all the blog posts together amount to about 3.6 million Chinese characters, averaging 3,600 characters per post. Leaving aside papers that run to tens of thousands of characters at a stretch and microblog posts of just a few words, an article is generally about two or three thousand characters.
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Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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