As a year concludes, it’s customary for people to look back and review what happened. So I thought it appropriate to chronicle Resonance’s 2003 highlights.
Back on January 1, 2003, Resonance looked like this. It remained in this void, formless, yet error-free state for four months.
On April 23, Blogger Resonance was born with little fanfare. Initially it had no blogroll, no comments, and no readers. But over time it cultivated a small, confused audience. By late summer, literally dozens of Internet users had locked their browsers in on Resonance.
On September 29, the present Movable Type Resonance was launched. Three days later the site officially went public by hosting the Volunteer Tailgate Party.
Since then search engines have kicked in and site traffic has increased every month. Thanks to everyone who’s deliberately stopped by this year.
As we peer into the uncharted expanse of 2004, Resonance stands posed to make some sort of statement in the new year. Stay tuned to find out what kind of statement that is.
December 2003
Campaign Spending
Kos points out that the Bush campaign is spending like the Bush administration. They’ve already burned $15 million without any primary opponent.
Year-End Bonfire
Proof that things could be worse here.
T.V. 2003
Someone at Reuters put together the “10 Most Painful TV Events of 2003.”
The sad thing is that you put together a list of T.V.’s 2003 “highlights,” the two lists might resemble one another.
Breaking with the Government Line
Per Drudge comes this New Year’s Eve advisory from Rep. Christopher Shays, who apparently isn’t out to make friends with the tourism industry:
Republican Rep. Christopher Shays, however, said people ought to avoid places like Times Square, calling it irresponsible for officials to make people think they don’t need to take precautions.
“Secretary Ridge says just do what you normally do,” Shays said. “If normally you go to Times Square, I wouldn’t do what you normally do. I wouldn’t go into places when you’re packed and where if there was panic, a lot of injuries would take place.”
I don’t know how great the threat at Times Square is, but props to Shays for not feeding us the same old act-normal-but-be-alert line.
Bye Bye Fun ‘n Gun
Coach Steve Spurrier and the Washington Redskins worked out the final details of his resignation this afternoon — after a few hours of confusion in which Spurrier was unaware that he had quit his own job.
Spurrier’s resignation was worked out by agent Jimmy Sexton while the coach played golf, presumably in Florida. Spurrier, who had hired Sexton on Monday, was initially unable to reach the agent today because of cell phone troubles on the golf course. That led Spurrier to deny that he had quit after the team had announced his departure in a news release.
A rather embarrassing episode to end the old ball coach’s tenure in D.C. I had hopes that Spurrier might be able to turn things around for the Redskins. But by season’s end it was becoming painfully clear that things weren’t headed in the right direction.
The Post identifies Dennis Green, Tom Coughlin, and Jimmy Johnson as potential replacements.