4k : yippi-ti-yi-yay

Today this blog's Sitemeter counter hit a whopping 4000, after a mere, um, 9 months or so of operation. I guess that's sort of impressive, so long as we don't compare the numbers with any of those other blogs out there. Well, whatever. I'm not a competitive person.

I decided earlier today that I'd do a post all about whatever brought the 4000th visitor here, within reason. Then I decided that in case that reason wasn't interesting enough to sustain an entire post, I'd cover a selection of recent reasons people ended up here. Other than people who show up via "Next Blog", I mean, since those generally merit a post of their own. That's basically what I've ended up doing here, more or less. Or that was the starting point for this post, at any rate.

Recently I've gotten a decent number of visitors here via Technorati. Mostly it's because I link somewhere, Technorati picks it up, and someone follows the link back here, for some reason. So here are a few of the recent backlinkees (to coin a stupid word), plus the occasional thing of interest that I ran across via Technorati while checking out the backlinks, plus stuff I found on Del.icio.us in connection with other items here, plus whatever, all in no particular order.

Updated 8/9/2025: You might be wondering why I'm updating a blog post from 19 years ago. And frankly so am I. It started innocently enough: I was spending part of a lazy Saturday morning going through adding labels to old blog posts that didn't have them, and occasionally tidying up sloppy html, changing old image embeds from http to https, housekeeping stuff like that. Apparently adding a label is enough to trigger a content re-review, and the bot decided this post from 2006 no longer met Community Guidelines, and unpublished it. It did not explain what, specifically, the offending bits were, but there were a few links on these lists of odd traffic sources that may have been a bit... risqué, which is generally not something I do here. For context, recall that this was posted in 2006, back in the early years of... I'm not sure it was even social media yet, but the early days of mere mortals publishing stuff and linking back and forth and so on, and the sheer randomness of some of it was rather amusing to me at the time. It was a dark and innocent time, in other words. Google itself still had the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, which would take you to a random site somewhere on the internet, maybe related to your last search, if you were lucky.

So 19 years is a long time ago, and a lot has changed since then, and this just doesn't feel like a hill worth dying on, so I went ahead and removed anything that seemed even remotely less than squeaky clean, or potentially offensive to anyone in any way. So now we'll see whether that's enough to satisfy the content bots of 2025 AD.