One of the greater themes of my life has been if no one is letting me do this I’m just going to do it myself. Can’t get a job at a newspaper? Start your own. Can’t get a job on a TV show? Start your own!

I have no handyman skills, though I am Mr. DIY. No one has bought you the gift you want? Buy it yourself. No one has planned your birthday party? Do it yourself! I’ve self-published books, printed my own CDs, and funded my own concerts. Like, an unholy number of times.

For years I’ve been trying to get my biography included as an article on Wikipedia. I may be in the minority on this, especially among teachers, but personally I think Wikipedia is the greatest source of information on the Internet. It’s basically the encyclopedia I would have eventually written myself, amirite?

Well, I don’t need to write the whole encyclopedia, just the one article I want to see. And now it’s here, on my own website, the one I produce myself. Mike O’Connell, maker of content.

My Wikipedia page now lives not at Wikipedia but at the top of the blog I’ve published for nearly 10 years. That it took me 10 years to think of this is a bit disappointing, but hey, I’ve been busy.