Year 1

Posted on October 3rd, 2007 in Customary Drivel by Deas

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Approximately 1 year ago, I started this website after purchasing a computer here in Japan. I was using iWeb for a few months, but wound up turning to 1&1 hosting and WordPress as an alternative platform when I realized how limited iWeb was. In one year, I’ve gone from 0 to occasionally 40 feed subscribers. That surprises me, to be honest. I figured my mom would be the only one to subscribe. (Although…I don’t know if she knows how…so scratch that, actually…) By the way, if you’ve not subscribed - please feel free. Use this link or any of the others on the sidebar.

I also went from 0 to 14,722 unique visits in a month (as of last month) according to my statistics utilities. I thought that the upward trend was coming to rest on a plateau around the end of May and June, but low and behold…people kept visiting. That is really neat. (Granted, some visit for weird reasons. But still.)

I signed up on Technorati in February, and I think I’m still the only person to favorite my blog. (Sigh.) My “authority” has gone from 0 to 25. (And down to 22 and back up again. Depends on the day, I guess.) I suppose if you’ve read this far you won’t be too upset if I put a shameless plug in here. If you like my blog, please consider adding me to your Technorati favorites and maybe even to your blogroll. :-) Lastly, as of writing this post, my blog has 226 posts and 1,032 comments. Next year I hope to bring that number closer to 300 posts. Almost a post a day. (But not if it means sacrificing quality. I don’t want any “I’ve fulfilled my obligation today” posts.) In any event, I want to thank you all for what was, in my opinion, a very successful first year of casual blogging. Here’s to a second year that’s just as fun. Thanks, guys!