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A week ago today I posted some thoughts about the tools I am currently using to discover and understand the traffic I get here at my blog. Several of you commented on that post and offered some helpful suggestions (i.e., W3counter -- thanks Dan Grossman) and encouragement, all of which were much appreciated. Since that time I have also been carrying on an email dialog with a friend and fellow blogger about his experience, and in today's post I want to relate his statistical success story and see if we can draw some lessons from it. At his request, I won't mention who he is or link to his blog, but you may, I think, find his story as interesting as I do.

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In this post, I want to talk a bit about how I am monitoring who is viewing my blog and how often they appear to be doing so.

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Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, announced this morning that version 2.2 of WordPress is available. This is very welcome news indeed, because among the other things it includes is «A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google's Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.» As soon as the upgrade becomes available on Dreamhost in its one-click installs, I'll be upgrading this installation to 2.2 so that I can import the almost 2 and a half years of posts and comments from my Blogger version of this blog into this installation so that all my blogging can appear in this one spot. Thank you, Matt and the whole WordPress team, for all your excellent work and effort.

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Yesterday or the day before, I was tagged by Tish and invited to list 5 goals of mine. I must admit that I am more into pipe dreams and fairy tales than I am into goals. It's a character flaw I suppose to be a dreamer rather than a planner. When my friend Jerry recently made some very kind remarks about me in which he said,

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A former colleague and friend, Jerry Pounds, is quoted extensively this morning in a Wall Street Journal article by Jeff Zaslow. So as Jerry basks in his moment of notoriety, I bask in the knowledge that I once knew someone who is considered quotable by someone who writes for a widely-read publication, and therefore by extension, and I would add by a real stretch of the imagination, I am now famous! 14:59, 14:58, 14:57 ... the seconds of my 15 minutes of fame tick away furiously. Damn, fame is fleeting!

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Yesterday I learned another two-part lesson. I was trying to figure out how to change the stylesheet for one of the blogs that I administer so that it would indent the first line of all the paragraphs in a post.

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Tom Simpson has tagged me as a part of the «Why do I blog?» meme that is circulating in the blogosphere.

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No, this isn't a religious post; the title just seemed appropriate to the day on which I'm making it. I'm referring to my own resurrection from not posting here recently. I didn't die, and I wasn't buried. I was just off exploring various things on the net and have been a bit remiss in posting my thoughts about them. So this will be something of a catch up post, covering a number of things that I found interesting lately.

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As I indicated I was going to do, I didn't turn on my computer at all on Saturday the 24th, and by so doing I observed Shutdown Day 2007. In general, I'd have to say that the day was very pleasant, quite productive and surprisingly easy to do. Some of you who commented on my interest in this day didn't see what the point was. For me, it was to see what kind of reaction I had to the self-imposed restriction not to use of my computer for one day. After awaking at 5:07 AM and going strong until about 11:30 PM, I can say that the event impressed me enough that I may just make it a regular monthly practice.

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Just a quick post near midnight on the 23rd to say, I'll see you on the other side of Shutdown Day 2007. Be back on the 25th. Have fun while I'm away.

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