I thought while I try to get my printer/scanner working with my iMac (Snow Leopard says the driver is pre-installed, but my scanner doth protest), I would post the table where I keep a tally of all the posts I’ve written here. Also, because I’m a data nerd.

I was surprised that I’d posted less than last year — it didn’t seem that way. Come to think of it, 2009 was a rollercoaster but I was quite preoccupied with many things that I couldn’t discuss online. Travel-wise I would say 2008 was a bigger flying/driving year than 2009 due to my work situation, so it could also be that many of those posts are mobile phone pics from hither and yon rather than written posts. My most prolific blogging year thus far was 2006, but I moved from Pennsylvania back to Canada and was in a state of flux, recovery, and rebuilding. I did not work most of that year and thus had more time to write.
Of course, I had to make a graph, too. I’m a visual person and it’s part of what I do for a living, a table just wasn’t enough…

With 3,380 posts and counting, I’ve been searching for a better way to display archives without killing my server with database queries. I used to have the Extended Live Archives plugin — built on Ajax, which I loved — to review the posts but the developers have neglected it and gone MIA. My search for a better mousetrap continues. One reason why I want to get the archives list back is because I use the list to help write my Year in Review. My last one was 2007, which I wrote a year ago. 2008 and 2009 were both big years (actually, I can’t remember the last time I had a “not-so-big” year), but with 619 and 534 posts, respectively, there isn’t an easy way to skim the post titles.
Video for today: something a little different this time… fingers breakdancing. It’s a minute long, so bear with me — it’s cute…








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