365; 204; 185,681; 31,593,104,473
Happy birthday! No, not my birthday exactly, though coincidentally, that’s not far off.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
It was a year ago today that I said “hello world” in this space, Tim did me the favor of sharing his google karma by outing me, and this blog went public.
In the past year, I’ve written 204 essays that have been served 185,681 times. All tolled more than 30 gigabytes of data have been hurled through the ’net from here. Continuing with the statistical theme, the most popular essays have been:
| Essay | Hits |
|---|---|
| XML Is Not Object Oriented | 4024 |
| Summer Flowers! | 3882 |
| Pub Signs | 3076 |
| More Ruminations on DocBook | 2846 |
| Escaped Markup: Still Harmful | 2803 |
| XML 2003 | 2758 |
| IE Oddness | 2327 |
| Escaped Markup: What To Do Instead | 2299 |
| On Atom and Postel’s Law | 2291 |
| Taking a Hard Line | 2272 |
It’s an interesting mix of essays. Some, like the series on escaped markup (evil! evil! evil!) are controversial and must be well linked; others, like flowers and pub signs, are just popular search targets.
Looking back, I think it’s been a delightful success. Something, certainly, that I intend to keep on doing.
See you next year, and roughly 200 times before then!
Comments
Isn't it odd that the Google Ads for this page all point to essay-producing companies? As a scientist (almost!) I think that's funny.