The Daily Haggis: The Early Days

This whole blogging thing began for me back in early 2002. I was spending a lot of time reading news about films and television shows on websites like Ain’t It Cool News and Dark Horizons.

Inspired by a few early blogging pioneers and my own love of sharing useless entertainment news and rumors, I decided to create a weekly newsletter that I would send to my friends. After a month or two, the mailing list had grown by a couple hundred members (thanks to a few friends and their donated address books) and I was getting hooked on the idea of developing the newsletter into a website.

Almost like clockwork, I received a warning from both Yahoo! Groups (who hosted the mailing list) and my ISP stating I was “spamming” so I decided to shut it down and move it all online. Luckily I had already made the transition and was ready to phase out the newsletter permanently .

The first version of The Daily Haggis (pictured above, sans a few pictures) used Moveable Type and very rudimentary HTML. Since the Content Management System (CMS) of MT allowed me to post several times a day without having to manually generate all my HTML pages (geek mode off), I decided that it would become “The Daily Haggis.”

This version was originally located as a sub-website of (the original) onefryshort.com. I didn’t purchase the domain name until the next April, where the second version of The Daily Haggis debuted.

Check back over the next few weeks as I continue down memory lane to the official blogiversary!