6 months on...

As I write these words, I cannot believe that 6 months has passed since my last entry on this blog. Indeed, as I have been obsessively busy building my photography blog's content up to an acceptable level - see www.stretchthehorizon.co.uk for further details - this period has passed in the blink of an eye, as we all know 'Time flies when you're having fun' (the best idiom I can find, sorry).

Now let's break my shutter-snapping pictorial absence down a little more, shall we?

• 6 months
• 25 weeks
• 181 days
• 4,344 hours
• 260,640 minutes
• 15,638,400 seconds

So, there we have the explanation of why this blog's entries have suffered so badly for the last year-and-a-half and I hope you will click the above link to assess whether it's been 'Time well spent' or I've just been 'biding my Time' or has it all been just 'a waste of Time' (okay, enough of the Time-related sayings now, eh)?!

The Boiling Rage: 2010 in review

Got this email through this morning from WordPress, so thought I'd revel in my own (pathetic) brilliance and let anyone whose interested (!?) to gauge my 'Blog-Health-o-Meter™'! Now, I know the figures aren't immense or mind-blowing but still, World Dominance isn't attained in a day, is it...?

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,900 times in 2010. That's about 4 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 42 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 56 posts. There were 104 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 8mb. That's about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was December 5th with 109 views. The most popular post that day was A tale of two Bicycles.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were bv.com.au, imdb.com, facebook.com, mail.live.com, google.co.uk and en.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for the boiling rage, ellie koning, windows 7 advert, parcelforce, and colin brazier.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1. A tale of two Bicycles April 2010
2. Windows 7 UK adverts: anyone for an anal lobotomy? Jan 2010
3. Zombies: it's all about the way they move... December 2009
4. Parcel Force? P*ssing Farce more like! July 2010
5. Halifax Bank's Radio Station: feeling a little queasy April 2010
6. BT Broadband: welcome to the dribbling trickle   February 2010
7. Walking and Dogs - ready for a workout?   May 2010
8. In eBay sellers we trust    June 2010
9. New MP3 player, new top 10    September 2010
10. I can't get no Enlightenment satisfaction    December 2010

Some of your most popular posts were written before 2010. Your writing has staying power! Consider writing about those topics again.

So, there we have the result of all my hard work: another year has passed in my blogging world, with another 12 months suddenly arriving to occupy me and it's yet another 52 weeks sucked from my very bones as I head towards the grave, dust and the Universal.

And you know what? I wouldn't change a f**king thing!

Happy birthday The Boiling Rage: one year on in blog land

The Boiling Rage blog is one year old today. I’ve now been tapping the plastic keys on my QWERTY keyboard for the last twelve months in the hope of getting accidentally discovered and being found to be mildly entertaining. During this time, I’ve tried to post at least a single article a week and I’ve stuck to this regime most of the time, although for some reason I’m looking at 44 posts for 52 weeks, which gives me a shortfall of eight missing entries, seemingly lost forever somewhere in the virtual ether my blog dwells. Now, it’s unknown whether these lost paragraphs and misplaced snippets are of any consequence to Humanity or if their eventual discovery will tip the balance of the universe in favour of good against evil, so conjecture is irrelevant (but nice to presume): personally, I’m not holding my breath, though anything’s possible when faced with the unexpected sighting of such wordily slop.