2008 and all that

[muffled thumping] [wins laptop away from visiting small people who are disconcertingly better than me at “Diablo”]

Since everyone seems to be doing reviews of 2008, why should I be any different?! Except for the fact I don’t have the list of posts that everyone else has, but anyway . . .

OK Started on 26 October, and had a big boost by having some kindly pointers to the new blog by PZ, and Larry Moran.

I finally put a counter on Ediacaran on the 10th of December, and since then I’ve had 1645 unique visitors at an average of 75 (it was >80 before Christmas). I’ve got no idea if that’s good, bad, or indifferent, but I’m impressed.

A big hi to Vancouver, Washington State, Portland, Oregon, and Rimini, Italy. According to my statcounter, you three have the most visits, so thanks and keep coming back.

Also a big hi to Tebingtinggi, Indonesia, Lanzhou, China and Pune, India – some of the more exotic locations that people have recently logged on to Ediacaran from.

One thing the stats showed was that I got a big rise in hits at regular intervals. A little digging showed that the hits swelled after each posting of PalaeoPorn. This indicated one thing - you should all be ashamed of yourselves (but look out for a big PalaeoPorn tomorrow – nothing like starting the new year with a bang!)

As the assorted small visitors here are massing for a frontal assault for the laptop, I think a strategic withdrawal is in order. Thanks for coming by, and have a great and safe 2009.