This last month, blog.fogel.ca turned one. Oh, how far we’ve came since we became self-aware in that basement internet cafe in La Paz, Mexico with an annoying international keyboard, a credit card, and a copy of putty. We’ve now upgraded all the way to a regular cafe up in Menlo Park, 2nd biggest train-hating community in CA. Oh boy!
So, I’d like to pay a quick salute to a year of full of travel and tech, cycling and cars, mexico and europe, rights and riots, stanford and cal, rants and rail, politics, oil, gay marriage, howto’s and whatever else was on the mind when the keyboard was dangerously near. I hope it’s been as fun reading my electronic spewage as it has been expelling it.
And for better or for worse, a good stylesheet and some solid blogging software seems to give you a little assumed legitimacy in the internets these days. blog.fogel.ca has seen approx. 30x growth over the past year. Weekday traffic these days surpasses that of the first few months. Now if we can keep those trends up for just two more years….
A few musings about the past year and blog.fogel.ca:
- Even though I don’t know jack about either, posts about cars and Mexico are the most popular.
- Way, way too much traffic comes from searches for Mexican prostitutes and party favors.
- And although it may be a big deal to me, apparently the internet just doesn’t care about the unprecedented success bike-to-work day was this year. Only one lonely reader has ever (probably mistakenly) found themselves reading about commute hour bike traffic counts at the corner of Van Ness and Market.
Happy b-day blog!