I might be off by one or two but little counters on this site that I can see and you can't suggest to me that as of the moment I post this message, there are 30,000 unique posts on site. "Unique" does not mean the contents of those posts are brilliant; just that I'm not counting reruns.
How does a one-person blog attain that number? Well, I started this blog on December 18, 2000. That was not that easy to do back then. Today, it like all blogs, runs on fancy blogging software. You just type in what you want to say and it formats and posts everything. Back then, there was no fancy blogging software and I had to hand-code everything. Eventually, blogging software came along and I went through two different programs before I found the one I now use. With each switch, it meant converting all the old posts to the new format and sometimes, that took a lot of…well, you don't want to hear all about that. Here's some math though that might interest you…
12/18/2000 was 7931 days ago. Doing the math, it works out to something like 3.8 messages a day. 62.3% of them have mentioned Frank Ferrante.
Like almost everything else in this world, some days it feels like a chore and some days I'm very glad I started doing it. The response to my little telethon for the month of September makes me very glad and it isn't just the cash. It's the very nice messages I'm receiving also from people who seem to appreciate it. I shall try to thank you by keeping it up and running as long as I am able.
And now, here's another one of these…
