second blogiversary

second blogiversary

It's hard to believe that it has been two years since I started this little corner of the web. It looks like the readership has been climbing though, especially in this last month. What brings people here? Well, it sure hasn't been my semi-regular antiNASA rants. It hasn't been my links to various robot news sources either. Nor has it been my political commentary.

So, what happened in the last month? Why is it that at the beginning of March I had 1000 hits over an eleven month period, and another almost 500 since? A quick perusal of my sitemeter showed a ton of hits from Scandanavia right around the time of the women's world curling championship; it turns out that this site is at the top of the Google chart under the search term "Linn Gitmark sexy". I don't even have any pictures of her! I just said that she is gorgeous, that's all... and I had said that another curler was sexy... and that was a year ago fercryinoutloud.

Another big source of hits was the bit I wrote about Terri Shiavo a few days ago; I guess I have The Claire Files to thank for that.

And of course there was my little video; the file transfer site has now expired, but I am still working on it from time to time. When I get that video done I will most likely re-render it using POVray, so that the picture quality turns out a little more photo-realistic (ie better shadowing, no aliasing etc.).

So what's in store over the next year for this blog? Well, I'm working on a few little projects, at least one of which is sure to ruffle some feathers in the aerospace industry. I may even have the occasional worthwhile thing to say. Stay tuned.