One Year

October 23, 2005 Blogs & Blogging 3

Today this blog is one year old. Some stats:

  • 39,010 hits
  • 353 entries
  • 431 comments

A year ago, I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about or even whether I had enough in me to write that much – I guess after all, I am full of something…

Mostly this has been political comment and mostly it has consisted of complaints about what is going wrong in the world. Consequently, it may give a misleading impression. I am not really a younger version of Victor Meldrew… honestly. Rather, I am a mild person, slow to anger, yet irritated by mediocrity and stupidity. The media that surrounds us is riddled by examples of both unfortunately. So perhaps I am an apprentice Victor Meldrew after all…

I’ve also been driven to blog about those things that interest me – and I hope people enjoy the photographs I’ve published here. Photography is a visual art and part of the enjoyment is seeing others enjoy the images one has created.

Then there’s the cats – we lost dear old Penfold in November and gained Berenike and Arsinoe in May. Indeed, I was blogging so much about the cats, that I started another blog, Felix Domesticus, devoted just to them. Yesterday I published the kittens’ six month pictures.

As the hits have increased and more people visit, my Google ranking has risen – I am the first “Longrider” you will see if you do a search. There is a downside to this – I am now being bombarded with SPAM. It’s a sort of inverse compliment, I suppose. It means that I’ve arrived.

It’s been an interesting year – here’s to the next.

3 Comments

  2. Many congrats fella, I remember a fair sense of achievement when I reached the big 1. And 353 entries is a bloody good effort, nearly 1 a day on average, I thought I was doing ok with 422 after nearly 2 years!

    As for the moaning etc. perhaps it is precisely the fact that you now have here to vent your spleen that enables you to remain mild at home. However I think as time goes on the examples of stupidity and mediocrity seem to grow, or perhaps it is that as we get older our tolerance of them wanes.

    I am now getting 1000 hits a day of late and I’d say at least 75% of that is pure spam. As you say an inverse compliment I guess.

    I look forward to the next 353 entries.

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