Hokum is five years old — really! If you go into the archives, you’ll only see entries back to September 2006, but that’s because of an unfortunate backup snafu I had when changing blog platforms.

Here are the Top 10 posts in the site’s history:

Verizon FiOS vs. Cox Cable: My experiences

Randy’s smoked brisket recipe

Verizon FiOS vs. Cox Cable: One year later

Pastrami, the lazy way

The Lone Wolf Harp Delay

Upgrading the home theater

A harp player’s tone compendium

Dissecting Mr. Chicken

Goodbye Evening Star. Goodbye, Crunchland.

On Jake and Elwood

…and here’s my favorite post, to this day:

From St. Paul: Bacon on a stick

I never thought I’d blog for five years continuously, and even twitchier forms of personal communication (Twitter, Facebook and the {IMHO, wildly overrated} Tumblr) have passed blogging by for many folks, but I have enjoyed this and hope to continue for many years.