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May 17 has been an interesting and exciting day throughout history. On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress banned trade with Canada. In 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was formed. In 1940, Germany occupied Brussels. In 1954, The United States Supreme Court delivered its unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education. In 2004, Same Sex Marriage became legal in Massachusetts. And in 2005, TheOneGreatX.com went live.
Yes, that is right, today this site celebrates its One Year Anniversary. A lot has happened in the past year. There have been three design changes, many articles, and a lot of good times. Here’s a summary of the past year.

May 2005: 186 Unique Visitors
May 17, 2005: The Website is registered with Fuitadnet hosting. On that day and the next day, I have an exciting chat with tech support about my site.
May 19, 2005: My website is finally accessible, and receives 7 visits in its first day.
May 26, 2005: The Official TheOneGreatX store is opened.

June 2005: 181 Unique Visitors
In this month, I dealt with putting up my art through various means and ultimately decided that a link to deviantART page would be best (This decision, however, did not come until many months later).
June 24, 2005: I post my article on Rhode Island, and then promptly leave for several weeks, leaving a countdown timer until I return. This article will spawn about 40 or so Google searches for “Weird Bathrooms” to end up at my site.

July 2005: 67 Unique Visitors
I was gone this entire month, but apparently 67 people enjoyed staring at the countdown timer.

August 2005: 114 Unique Visitors
August 18, 2005: The Art page gets completely redone. It still sucks and is a hassle to update.
August 29, 2005: I post 2 articles, both reviews on books I read. At this time, the X Robot is finally put to work.

September 2005: 100 Unique Visitors
September 5, 2005: A New TheOneGreatX Wallpaper posted featuring a new logo. That logo is immediately retired and never used again.
September 8, 2005: First Re-Design
September 18, 2005: I get a new camera. Awesome!

October 2005: 10592 Unique Visitors
October 2, 2005: My New Slogan is introduced. I write a long explanation of the slogan.
October 13, 2005: Part 3 of the Marilyn story is posted.
October 18, 2005: I redo the Art page. Nothing is really any better.
October 31, 2005: My Login Screen Tutorial gets to the front page of Digg. I receive 10817 visits and don’t even slow down.

November 2005: 5968 Unique Visitors
November 13, 2005: Second Re-Design. I cave in and put everything on a main column with pretty curved edges. I also discover the beauty of CSS.
November 14, 2005: I launch Taking The First and write an article about the Sony DRM scandal. I also redo the Art section (why, just why?)
November 28, 2005: I write my article on Runescape. 83% of its readers miss the point.

December 2005: 1171 Unique Visitors
December 17, 2005: I finish On the Edge of Insanity

January 2006: 1002 Unique Visitors
January 2, 2006: I launch my Zazzle Prints store. Also On this day, I write my article on my hopes for 2006. None of them have happened yet.
January 16, 2006: Third Re-Design. I adopt use of Wordpress, but do not accept blog status (I am not a blog). I also begin working with iPods & Mods, which would later be shut down due to failed expectations.

February 2006: 626 Unique Visitors
I don’t know what happened this month. Really, nothing exciting seems to have occurred. There was that Blizzard, though, that was cool.

March 2006: 1391 Unique Visitors
March 2, 2006: I take one last swing at monthly desktops. Later in the month I decide that the idea sucks and that I should just drop it.
March 28, 2006: I start my Last.FM Stats. They are quite fun.

April 2006: 11342 Unique Visitors
April 1, 2006: I make a post explaining that I am being arrested. People actually buy it.
April 5, 2006: I celebrate Naked CSS Day, and turn off the CSS stylesheet for the day. Life goes on.
April 23, 2006: My article on cracking Windows passwords makes it to the front page of Digg.

That’s it, folks, that’s the past year! A lot has happened, and I’m still here, still going, and will go for as long as I can.
Now, what’s happening to celebrate? Well, first off, I did a slight re-design of the site in celebration of this day, so enjoy that. Also, there is a Limited Edition Shirt available for purchase here. Happy One Year, and thanks to everyone for stopping by!
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go eat Yodels and drink Nestea Cool.