Yes, the title is correct – this is the 200th post on Life of Andrew. I started this blog almost exactly 4 years ago as a way of practising my writing. At the time I thought that 1 post a week was a good target, I guess I have fallen slightly short of that but not by much. I don’t know if my writing has improved, but it has been fun.
I case you were curious, here is a quick look behind the scenes:
This is a graph (from Google Analytics) of the weekly page views of Life of Andrew (this doesn’t count the rest of sandfly.net.nz.) I usually see between 30 and 60 page views a day, sometimes more if a particular entry gets linked somewhere. This hardly ever happens but I will admit to self-spamming certain sites occasionally to see what traffic turns up. I added the social media buttons to each post to see if that would encourage readers to post links to various sites but so far that hasn’t happened even once. I don’t know why the basic trend seems to be down, perhaps I haven’t written anything interesting lately.
By far the most popular post on the site is The HTML5 Video Tag’s Fatal Flaw – a rant about the then-new web standard which received some attention from Important People In The Industry. I wrote it while starving myself in preparation for oral surgery after two weeks of painful tooth ache – by far the best preparation for any type of rant, perhaps I should try it more often. It still gets a lot of hits, mainly from people searching for “HTML5 Video”. I hope it doesn’t put anyone off.
According to FeedBurner 44 people subscribe to Life of Andrew. I am not really sure I believe that number – I suspect it double counts people that read RSS feeds on more than one computer. But hello to however many there are of you out there.
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I confess to being one of the RSS subscribers. Always up to date with what’s happening with you! (that sounds slightly stalkery…)
Does your mother count?
Why does oral surgery require starvation?
When it is going to involve full anesthetic