An Anniversary to Note

Today marks the ninth anniversary of this blog. This longevity can be attributed to either sheer perseverance or from sheer boredom of somebody who has refused to get a life.

The stats are impressive: the total post count is nearly 39,000 posts and millions of words including my own words and copy-and-paste. The readership level is much less impressive, seldom rising above a couple of hundred hits a day if one believes in Site Meter stats, which I don't because it undercounts and even deletes unique visitors or page views. I gave up on it a long, long time ago. That's why my readership stats are no longer publicly available. Because I wasn't a traditional liberal asskisser and wouldn't link to the big blogs and such in the early days when blogging started to catch fire, my readership never went up to the level it probably deserved, and therefore I couldn't make a living at blogging like ol' Kos and a few of the others.

That's the way it is. I never was an asskisser, and I have paid for it in a variety of ways.

This blog will likely make it to next December 15, if I make it that long.

Note: The archives show my first post was on December 17, 2002, but I know that the archives had screwed up some time back. My very first post was about Trent Lott and why I thought he should stay in the Senate.