---
title: "6 months and counting"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/3/6-months-and-counting.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/3/6-months-and-counting.html"
published: "2003-07-03T09:11:00"
updated: "2003-07-03T09:11:00"
tags: ["Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I've just realized that I've been blogging here for almost 6 months. Should I light half a candle? Yey! Halfppy Blogthday :)"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# 6 months and counting

By Roy Osherove July 3, 2003 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 3, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

I've just realized that I've been blogging here for almost 6 months.

Should I light half a candle?

![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/90833cbb_www.mylittlelife.net_photos_candle.jpg)

Yey! **Halfppy Blogthday** :)

## More in Blogging

[All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

- Jul 9, 2003

    ### [Microsoft does, but can do even more](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/9/microsoft-does-but-can-do-even-more.html)

- Jul 7, 2003

    ### [FeedDemon fixes abound!](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/7/feeddemon-fixes-abound.html)

- Jun 29, 2003

    ### [Scripting News Is Down. I'm Sad.](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/29/scripting-news-is-down-im-sad.html)

- Jun 29, 2003

    ### [Me Too!](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/29/me-too.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/