My first avatar, by Jin Wicked
In 2001, I was a developer, and I liked to write.
I’d had web sites for a number of years, but in 2001, I decided to switch from wickedlife.com (archive) over to BrentOzar.com. I wanted a domain name that would more appropriately reflect my interests as they changed over time, and I figured that I wouldn’t always be interested in the goth lifestyle, hahaha.
There were a couple of blogging applications available at the time – this was years before WordPress – but being a developer, I wanted to write my own as a