Holy crap.
Has it been a year? Already? To be perfectly honest, when I started this, I had only a small expectation that it would make it a full year. Typically I give up on personal pet projects much sooner than that, often tossing them aside for some other lofty and typically unreachable goal given my total lack of free time.
And yet, here we are. It feels pretty good to know that not only has this worked out, but that I feel like I’ve got at least another year’s worth of this in me. Who knows, mabye I can keep this up indefinitely. But enough of the crazy talk.
Like all anniversary posts everywhere, I’m going to throw some stats up here, because I’m pretty proud of these. I didn’t give myself any real goals when I started this, only that I dreamed it would be pretty killer to have a million visitors in my first year, and while I don’t think I quite hit that mark, I’m proud as hell about these stats.
- Pageviews: 1,057,440
- Posts: 174
- Comments: 965
- RSS Subscribers: 233
I wanted to say thanks to all the folks who’ve linked here, posted pieces to digg/stumble/reddit, read, and/or commented in the past year. Sometimes, just your love of the site or an insightful or heartfelt comment is enough to make the attention whore part of me want to keep posting when I feel like I have “more important” things to be doing. So thank you, from the cerebral part of me who doesn’t mind being goaded on once in awhile by a few excitement pheremones.
Here’s to what was an incredible year, and I’m looking forward to next year already.
/toast
Of course, I suppose I should spruce the place up a bit. This design is so 2007.
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9 responses so far ↓
1 Tomás // Nov 26, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Keep up the good work man, and cheers!
2 Jamo // Nov 26, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Congrats man, keep up the good work.
3 Gerard Delaney // Nov 27, 2008 at 3:04 am
Congrats mate. Glad to hear the enthusiasm is still there :)
4 Gonzalo Barrera // Nov 27, 2008 at 7:12 am
Well, I guess congratulations are in order. I follow your blog for some months now, and there’s always something interesting here. Oh, from the name you should have guessed that I’m not American. Well, you’ll be glad to know that you even have readers in Argentina!
5 Mastrmind // Nov 27, 2008 at 8:38 am
Congratulations! I just subscribed to your RSS 2 days ago.
6 Connor Bevans // Nov 27, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Congratulations! Love the blog and keep it up!
7 Malta Soron // Nov 28, 2008 at 6:50 am
Congratulations! I love reading your blog and I hope I can show it to my grand children some day.
8 emmanuel // Nov 30, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Congratulations!
Your thoughts and posts are very entertaining and interesting, continue this great work!
9 J-Walk // Dec 1, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I almost never post comments, but I am definitely here reading what you have to say. You have some great ideas and observations. Congrats on the one year landmark.
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