Well, I let the 10th anniversary of this blog slide by as I forgot to mention it. So, as the year draws to a close maybe that's the second best time to mention it, 10 years and 102 days according to my Python computation. The first blog post to Monolith Daily (which was, indeed, my first blog post of any kind) was on 2002-09-16.
Actually I wrote about the history for the ninth anniversary.