Another highlight was my Double V campaign<\/b><\/a> section of the site. It was based on a term paper I did in college about a movement that the Pittsburgh Courier<\/i> embarked on to encourage blacks to support the war while pushing for civil rights. I really need to need to feature that again. I still get e-mails about that project.<\/p>\n In the first two or three years, I changed hosts a few times, moving first to something called lookup.com and eventually GeoCities, where THMP stayed for a few of years before my family picked up the yurasko.net domain. By 1999, I had moved everything there, and on Labor-Day weekend of that year I did a major redesign, one that would last for a number of years. <\/p>\n I dropped THMP in favor of WFY2K, later WFY2000. At that time I also started Weekly William News, the precursor to current William World News and essentially a blog, but done without helpful software to manage the content. I kept Weekly William News going into 2001 when I got kind of burned out on it. The site became fairly dormant for some time.<\/p>\n Three years later, my interest in maintaining an active Web site picked up. I finally got around to integrating Blogger into my site and in March 2004.<\/p>\n This time around I was not very personal, choosing instead to largely focus on articles that I would have sent to my friends via “e-mail this story”. Without any premeditation, the blog began to focus on the pursuit of a major league baseball team for the D.C. region, and we know how that went. All along I had been focusing on Penn State, especially football and whatever struck my fancy. A few months into the blog, I did a redesign, called “fresh (if jangling)” by Hardball Times<\/b><\/a>, which stuck around for about a year and a half.<\/p>\n My latest redesign was done in December 2005. Along with a better, lighter look, it brought other, older, features of the site back to the navigation. I hope to expand on them in the near future, but I make no promises.<\/p>\n When I started this site, I had no idea how big of a factor it would play when I decided upon a career path, in a line of business that I did not even know existed when I started college. Funny how life works out sometimes. <\/p>\n So, that is ten years online a just a few paragraphs. Thanks to all the people who helped me out along the way (I hope I did not forget anyone):<\/p>\n Erica and my family, Brad<\/b><\/a>, Fritz, Cliff, Sam, Tom, David, Muha, Steve A.<\/b><\/a>, Kurumi<\/b><\/a>, Mr. Yamamoto<\/b><\/a> and other “road geeks”, Kyle, Good Ol’ Boy, Nats bloggers, Metroblogging DC<\/b><\/a>, Tortcaesar<\/b><\/a>, dl004d<\/b><\/a>, Eric F.<\/b><\/a>, Dr. Risley<\/b><\/a>, Jock, DPC, the alert reader in Fairfax, Belford, Alan G., Chris G. and anyone else I forgot. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Okay, that’s enough, back to regular programming.<\/p>\n![](\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/graphics\/v8.gif\")
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