This post, in the depths of waffle’s WordPress-powered database guts, has primary key and ID 501.
This number is significant for two reasons: it is the default UNIX account number given to the first user in Mac OS X. (If that sounded like gibberish you may enjoy this site even less than its intended clientele.) The other reason it’s significant is because it’s precisely 500 posts away from the very first post.
waffle has not yet clocked 500 actual posts. Countless drafts are in there, the WordPress blank-slate “this is your first post” post is in there, and so on. But because I’m a sucker for celebration, I’ve updated the look a bit. The header is now blue again, as it was two years back when the text also had reflection - before it was cool and hip and Web 2.0 and totally fucking overused, could everyone please stop using reflections please? - and the Google ads are a bit less in your face at the very bottom instead of in the top right corner.
So - here’s to at least 500 more logged entries in the database, all of them filled with dumb jokes, inane puns, groundless speculation, hopeless jeering and, maybe most of all, self-deprecation. And if you happen to want to tag along for the ride, neat.