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# A nominal milestone
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/a-nominal-milestone/
- Published: 2022-02-15T16:00:49.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-15T16:00:49.000Z
- Author: VM
- Tags: Life notes, blogging, milestone, #Migrated-1787484114599, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:22

In 2018, I discovered that my blog posts since mid-2014 had taken on a somewhat different character than those before, becoming more critical and paralleling my increasing, and increasingly nagging, questions about what it means to be a journalist – particularly a science journalist – in India at this time. So I reorganised my blog at that point to support this character more, including to truncate the archives at June 2014\. And I discovered a short while ago that on this *new blog*, I have published 1,000 posts. The milestone to me is nominal (references to such round numbers always bring to mind [a comment](https://science.thewire.in/science/its-your-generation-of-experimenters-that-makes-me-look-good-an-interview-with-kip-thorne/?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page) by physicist Kip Thorne, that to celebrate multiples of 10 is mostly to celebrate our choice of a decimal system). This said, it's gratifying that such a large number of posts have had readers and subscribers – sometimes one, sometimes a few thousands, but never zero. So thank you all for reading along. It means a lot to me. :) Take care.