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Before I finish this post, I need to touch my cheek with my pinky finger and say, One meeeelion hits!
According to the site, I've been blogging here since January of 2005. That's a pretty long time in terms of blogging and web content these days. The scary part is that without the site to tell me when I started, I'd have no idea. Look out, I'm going to get all deep and philosophical and crap:
There are a lot of different reasons why people blog. Some people blog because they want to contribute content to this fabulously cool new thing called the World Wide Web (after all, that is how the Transformers learned English, isn't it?). Others want to blog because they see something wrong and they figure they can start a grass-roots movement to make it right. On the other side of that spectrum there are those who see something right and use their blogs to praise it. What it really boils down to is that blogs give your average everyday shmoe a voice. Some of these people have such compelling things to say that they get hundreds of thousands of hits per day, week, whatever. They're the Internet version of celebrities. This leads me to another reason people blog: fame. Lots of people set up blogs with the hopes that they will some day become so widely read that they will be an Internet celebrity or even be part of a meme.
So why do I blog? I'm a fairly complex person so figuring out why I do things is typically pretty difficult. However, when it comes to blogging it's pretty simple. Ever since I can remember I have had an insatiable need to create - to build things. This is probably the same need that, when in the hands of a carpenter, architect, or engineer, might actually produce really cool tangible creations. For me, the urge to create has always been mental... but not limited to one side of the brain. I have been writing fantasy and science fiction since I was a kid, and I've been writing code since roughly the same time. My brain overdoses on euphoric sensations when I can actually write code that is related to fantasy or science fiction (which is why I blew off so many classes in college to write code for MUDs, MUCKs, MUSHes, and even 2400 baud BBS games written in C++ when I was 14...). My second driving need in life is to learn. This is almost as insatiable as my need to create and build. Finally, the third driving need is to teach. So when you combine the fact that I feel almost compelled to learn and absorb new things, then build new things based on what I've learned, and then finally teach other people about what I've been learning ... the reason why I've been blogging here since January 2005 is pretty obvious.
All I can say is that I'm glad you folks haven't thrown digital tomatoes at me and I hope you'll stick around for another couple years because I've got a ton of stuff that I'm learning and a ton more stuff that I'd like to create and and show everyone and hopefully show people some things they might not otherwise have seen.
1 million hits. It kinda gets a guy right there... I'm all choked up.
Thanks for reading!
Uh yeah...hits are a meaningless number. Lets hear about page views.
Page views:
Many congratulations. Your blog is worth the traffic.
