While posting my last entry, I happened to be on a blog that was celebrating its 100th post. Out of curiousity, I checked my own count, and discovered I was in the middle of number 99.
So this is the 100th post, let's look back a little.
The first entry was on June 4th, 2004, which means I've averaged a bit worse than a post a week since starting; not very impressive.
Since installing Google Analytics in November 2005, I've had 11,582 pageviews during 4,884 visits on casey0, and 13,354 pageviews during 2,998 visits on null-terminated.
Since installing Google Adsense in November 2005, I've had 21,166 impressions for a whopping $20.05 (some day I'll have enough for a payout...)
The raw contente of casey0 currently takes up 3.2MB, while null-terminated takes up 516MB (486M of that in the by-date photography tree).
For generated HTML, casey0 uses 3.8MB and null-terminated 550MB (516MB for the photography).
Those photography figures are just for the thumbnails. The camera directory on the server that has the full-size photographs is at 22GB and growing (although slowly these days).
It's strange to remember sitting in my office back in Venice, CA writing the first perl scripts. I was a year into my first job at R&H, hopelessly addicted to bloglines, and thinking I had a lot of free time for creative expression if I just had a fun outlet for it.
Based on the fact that I posted five times in those six months of 2004, I'd say I was mistaken. Part of that can be blamed on living with David at the beach, working so many hours, and trying to support several professional sports franchises; but alleviating those hasn't increased the rate by much.
The important thing is that it's all out there, comments are turned on (though only half a dozen have ever been left- my comment code sucks), and the site is slowly converging on what I want it to be.
Will it continue to get easier? Who knows, but I firmly believe you get good at what you do, so do what you want to be good at.
Here's to the next hundred going much faster.
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