I usually don’t navel-gaze, and there isn’t any special occasion, but a couple of numbers really popped out at me while I was looking over the stats. Please permit me this indulgence…
– In the year and almost a month since I’ve been tracking how many of you come in here, StatCounter says I’ve had 42,975 of you (at least when I started this). I know that’s high because of how “unique visitors” are counted, but it’s the best numbers I have (and better than what your average mass-transit authority claims for ridership). I do thank each and every one of you who’ve come in here (except for the two yokels I had to throw out).
– Related to that, somehow I’m up to somewhere around 190 of you subscribing to the feed. You guys and gals are the real hard-core.
– Shoebox, Leslie, Fred, Aaron, Patrick, the Emergency Blogging System, and I have combined to put up 2,025 rants high-quality posts (well, everybody else’s material qualifies as high-quality posts; mine go into the rant category) since I started the Blogspot version in October 2005.
– To go with that, I’ve had 1,955 comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks that haven’t been eaten by my anti-spam suite going into the start of this post.
– Akismet tells me that it ate almost 107,000 pieces of spam since I jumped to WordPress, and I know there’s been a few I’ve knocked out of here.
– I’ve often joked that the blogroll is quite bloated. When I throw in the Blogs4Bauer and the Moronosphere rolls, I’m somewhere over 300.
– I wish I knew how many vulgarities I threw up, but that counter broke a long time ago.
