My blog currently gets most its visitors from these three sources, counting down from the top most popular item:
- Searches for ‘signs a boy fancies you’. This search term pops up many times a day almost word for word. I wonder if the people who got there through a search engine found it helpful?
- Clicks from tags.These mostly come in the few hours immediately following a post and tags like sex, naked, love or life appear to attract the most visitors. I wonder why? ;-)
- Clicks from karalina’s blog. Clearly she has more readers than I :-) And whenever I comment there, I get a whole pile of visitors as a result *flexes his typing fingers in preparation* :-)
I’ve found this most interesting. I don’t confess to understanding my feed stats page as that graph goes up and down for no obvious reason and doesn’t appear to be in synchronisation with my posting habits. It just looks pretty. But the blog statistics, now reading that is as much an exercise in psychology as writing this blog in the first place.
Along with the fancying search, a surprising number of people have searched for ‘Messenger Live Wine’, ‘drunk MSN wine’ and ‘messenger wine drunk’ and have found themselves here as a result. I guess wine is a popular drink to have whilst enjoying chats on messenger. I was surprised not to see the word ‘regret’ slapped into those terms, too.
So there you have it folks: if you’re drinking wine, you should be on MSN.
It’s the simple things that make you smile :-)
On the subject of simple things, it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t be a little nerdy because I am, after all, back home after an evening of drinking with friends and I’ve had a touch too much. So therefore, I’d like to link to a few pictures that NASA’s New Horizons probe took whilst it whizzed its way by Jupiter on its way to Pluto. It’ll make its closest pass of Pluto on July 14th, 2015: three thousand and fifty-five days from now. Mind you, it has to go a long way: If you shone a bright enough light from earth, it would take over 5 hours for it to be visible from Pluto. And New Horizons won’t be stopping at Pluto, either, it’ll fly by at over 50 thousand miles per hour, fly out through the Kuiper belt and off into deep, dark space. Whilst making its brief ‘stop’ at Jupiter (and picking up an extra 9000mph thanks to Jupiter’s gravity), it took many wonderful pictures and this one of Europa and this one of Ganymede are incredible.
If you’ve got a 200 dollar telescope, you can see Jupiter for yourself — but these two guys, they’re just pinpricks in the sky lined up neatly next to their parent planet. Europa is particularly cool as it may have a relatively warm ocean under its ice crust. It is perhaps one of the greatest hopes for discovering live elsewhere in this solar system: let’s hope our explorer’s instinct allows us to do this exploration; we live in a big universe and we’ve barely scratched the surface of our own solar system.
Sorry about that folks, it’s the price you pay for visiting this blog: the occasional astronomy post.
As I’ve said many times before, I wish you a good-night, where-ever you are on this planet and a goodnight to the three people whizzing around it at 17,500mph on the International Space Station.
Sleep well :-)
