I was asked the other day if I knew how many people read my bLog here … I don’t … But I immediately thought I could look at the web logs and see who actually is reading this stuff … Then I thought again, maybe I don’t want to know?
I do know this … it’s spidered … after all, it’s on the ‘net … I know it’s spidered cause I get a bunch of comment spam all the time … So, I know that people that I don’t necessarily want to know of this site’s existence do know … How do they know? Through automated scripts that use those spiders that have an index of me …
I realized the other day when creating the project page that I don’t have my email address on here anywhere … I recall typing ‘contact me at my web site’ and that’s when I realized it … Then I thought, I don’t want to post an email address on the page judging from all the comment spam, I don’t want to introduce another window for spam … spam just sucks …
So, in the end, I probably won’t ever look at the logs cause that takes time … I only know of the people that read this because of the people that told me that they read this … I can only imagine that people here and there drop by because of a search … I do cover a lot of topics here … I have received comments in the past that were valid comments, and I didn’t know the author of those comments … Specifically my post about me not being a trucker, but I drive a truck on the weekends …
I also realize that I type very long posts … I dont try to, it’s just my way … Recently when emailing people from the band, it came to my attention that the length in which I describe something just totally lost them … So I have been working on getting to the point and leaving my actual thoughts out of it … This is difficult, but I guess I have to realize I’m dealing with musicians … Which is tough for me, cause I am a musician myself … So I don’t comprehend it … (Funny, most of the people I went to computer school with were musicians … We could have formed a band … I did in fact get together with one of the guys I went to school with, and we wrote some originals and even put one on a record … AVAP Sampler Volume 2 if you can find it.) …
Anyway … enough about me … let’s talk about my wife … When I was asked who read this bLog, I mentioned that my wife didn’t even read it … and I still don’t think she does … She mentioned that she would … There is a computer available for the family’s use … I have all the switch ports monitored for bandwidth, and I can tell if the thing was used whenever … I once baffled my child in that I told him that he used the computer while I was gone the previous night, and he didn’t know how I knew … Well, that’s how … I don’t look at it all the time … Was just probably something I saw at the time and I mentioned it and it freaked him … cool! .. hehe … It’s good to keep your kids on their toes … and beat them whenever you can (a post from a long time ago) …
So, the reason I post and don’t care about who reads it is that it’s here for me … I can go back on this whenever and see what was going on at whatever time, and what was spewing from my brain at that time … See what crap I was filling my site up with … Interesting to see my change of opinions over time, etc … It’s my vent … It’s where I go to complain or praise something that’s going on at the time … I share it publicly cause someone may benefit from it … Others may just find it a waste of time … Either that, or they will become engrossed in my writings and spend hours making sure they’re up to date on the latest and greatest and monitor for new posts … That would mean that I’m like a rock star … The President … a movie star! Yes! This would be the best thing ever, wouldn’t it? Bah! It’s probably time I stopped typing in here enlarging my ego and started making some money … Back to work …