What made you find here?
19:06 Tuesday 8 May 07
I’ve never pretended that this blog was anything other than somewhere to write what crosses my mind. I think there are a few posts which I look back on and still agree with, some I look at and wonder what I was on when I wrote it and others I have no idea what I was talking about. Overall I don’t think it’s too bad a place – but then I found how I was getting visitors.
I never look at stats. I used to at one time but in the past 2 or 3 years I could count the occasions on my thumbs. So when the stats plugin was being produced at wordpress.com I didn’t really give it any thought (and I know this will be taken as me promoting company code but it’s my view and no-one else’s). Then I installed it a couple of days prior to release – and I have looked at my stats lots of times.
Partly it’s disbelief at the top post (Remember Big Brother and “Who IS she?”) and partly it’s the search terms. If you scroll down you will see the search terms that are highlighted by Whoo’s Plugin. A lot are sexual in nature. Then more detail is revealed in the stats at wordpress.com:

There’s a word in there I have never typed here though in one comment thread it does appear more than once.
But hey, it’s more revealing of their thoughts than my deeds.
And it’s still odd.










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Which word would that be? I can guess, wait let me search. Nope I was wrong.
wow, whats up with your zeitgeist!!!??? You have really got to get a better clientèle. :P
19:20 Tuesday 8 May 07
2
I thought it was the c word… and yeah, the zeitgeist betrays me every time. It forced me to go public :)
19:27 Tuesday 8 May 07
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I suspect you are the victim of referrer spam
07:02 Wednesday 9 May 07
4
David – I wondered that too, but checking links back seems to find mainly search engine results. A couple are from mailing lists but otherwise nothing too weird.
00:09 Thursday 10 May 07