Welcome New Readers

Everytime I leave a job, there's a whole new batch of people that I can let it on the secret that I'm a bloggergeek.

ASIDE: I suspect this is actually a huge phenomenom, i.e., letting people know of your website only when you won't have to look them in the eye anymore. I'd write more on it but it seems so obvious that someone else must have already written about it by now. I'm just too lazy to spend the time looking for an article that must have been written about something that I know intuitively to be true.

Since Friday was my last day at SnP, I sent out an email to my team inviting them to witness the geekness and drinking skills as described herein. As I check my site stats, I see that at least a couple of folks have been reading or have taken a look. A couple of folks even appear to have been reading through some of the old archives. Has my writing improved since the early days, or is it pretty much the same drivel month after month?

I should probably say goodbye to some old readers too. I just found out that this website has been placed on the blocked sites list for readers from the ml.com domain. Too be honest, I'm surprised they didn't ban me years ago. If I recall, while I was there, the policy was that the internet was for work related issues only and that that policy was farely strictly enforced with an extensive blocked sites list.

I hope you'll read from home, dear friends. The entertainment provided is surely worth the price of admission.

I seem to have miscellaneous new readers as well. Ever since the rollout of MSN Search, my hits from search engines has jumped. But what doesn't make any sense is that it's all from Google. I'm thinking that maybe Google recently indexed either this page or my archive files or something - something that has caused my popularity to increase.

If I have SnP stories to tell, should I tell them here? Comments are right below.

Jonathan 2/14/2005 10:37:00 PM