Today, this blog is five years old. Wow, that’s old for a blog. I usually run some numbers on the birthdays (here’s last year’s). I’m an accountant, it’s what I do.
12,507 posts
42,416 comments
629,910 spam messages
1,676,578 words in posts
2,744,935 words in comments
1,520,729 visits per sitemeter
2,630,856 page views per sitemeter
3:28 Average Visit Length per sitemeter (note: i don’t even look at my internal stats package any more)
11,121 in bound links per technorati
One opinion piece published in a newspaper.
Five different blog software packages.
16 mentions in dead-tree media (that I know of)
$868.84 spent on blogging
$4,979 dollars made from blogging
1 number of times hacked
Update: For your reading pleasure, my first post in which I went undercover to attend the meeting of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
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Hey, congrats to you! Five years is like 50 years in Internet time.
Happy Anniversary, Unc. You know you’re supposed to buy a gun to celebrate, right?
🙂
Whenever anyone asks? “Who’s yer blogdaddy?“, I always Say Uncle. 🙂
Conga-rats. Quite an accomplishment these days, considering the average life-expectancy of a weblog out there.
Now you damn well better keep it up ;).
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Congratulations sir!
Congrats. A significant milestone.
Excellent!
Many happy returns!
But your posts are too short!! Quantity does not make up for quality, you know! 😉
From your first post I could tell you were a patriot and a stand-up guy. Thanks for your good works. Best wishes for the next five years to you and yours.
Congratulations on five years. How about five more?
Congratulations. Don’t stop now, this is one of my favorite daily reads.
Happy Blogday, SU!
Happy blog-birthday and many happy returns.
(BTW: Shaving puppies?)
It just sounded mean and unnecessary.
Oh, ok. We would scrape the hair off our pig after we slaughtered it so we could have the skin for crackling so I thought … you know … you being a neighbor of Instapundit’s and all …. 😉
Congrats!
And may you have many more blogiversaries!
Congrats..I remember reading when the blog was 6 months old..my how time flies.
You made money from blogging? Congratulations even more!!
Two days late, but I just saw this post. Congratulations!