One

According to a Perseus | WebSurveyor survey:

1.09 million blogs were one-day wonders, with no postings on subsequent days. The average duration of the remaining 1.63 million abandoned blogs was 126 days (almost four months).

I am proud to be able to say that this weblog is still alive and kicking, being one year old! Well, actually, the first post here was posted on the 22nd of February, but I had started it two days earlier elsewhere. The first posts were pretty lame, but this blog has evolved into something I’m quite pleased with.

Now, I would have liked to do something special to celebrate this one-year anniversary, but I couldn’t think of anything, so I’ll just go over some statistics

The best day ever (when it comes to number of views) was quite recent, 11 February, when an article hit the front page of Digg.com, OSNews.com and was linked to from a few other sites (thanks!), resulting in a total of 47,595 views. As I write this, there’s been a total of 227,593 views about half of which occurred since that article got popular.

The most popular term people enter in search engines to find this blog is ubuntu usb (1,067 hits), closely followed by xubuntu compiz (1,030 hits), obviously targeting the popular posts on putting Ubuntu 7.04 on your USB flash drive and installing Compiz on Xubuntu 7.10, respectively.

Apart from the tremendous amount of visitors that dropped by from OSNews (15,651 referrals just from the front page) and Digg (8,572 referrals just from the front page), a great number of visitors arrived through Xubuntu’s page on Distrowatch.com (4,873 referrals).

Then I’ve also redirected quite a few visitors elsewhere, such as my screenshot of Xubuntu looking like Windows Vista (2,145 clicks) or the web page providing patched images of Ubuntu and Xubuntu that would run off USB (2,030 clicks).

Up till now, I’ve written a total of 27 posts (this being the 28th) which generated a total of 572 comments (yours being the 573rd ), without counting the 5,088 spam comments .

I’d also love to be able to give you some statistics regarding browser- and operating system usage, but unfortunately, the WordPress.com statistics do not show those and I do not have the resources to host this weblog elsewhere and buy it a domain name. A good sign, however, is that nobody has been complaining about black bars around images which are caused by Internet Explorer 6 not supporting transparency

Monthly growth started to stagnate but received a massive boost with the recently popular article.

Unfortunately, the same boost almost reduced my weekly and daily growth to a flat line

Don’t worry, the next post will be a normal informative post again, and hopefully I’ll be able keep that up at least another year

Here I am… Again.

Well, here I am. Moved from Blogger because it paid so little attention to clean code. I figured now, when I had no readers, would be a good time to move

Anyway, I’ll re-introduce myself: My name is Vincent, born on the 3rd of November, 1989, living in the Netherlands. My music style is quite… Different. But well, you can check my Last.fm profile for that. Then I like playing football (soccer for you *** Americans).

Then about this blog: you probably already figured that it is about Xubuntu. I’m not exactly sure yet what kind of things I’ll be posting, except that I do not want it to be stuff you’ve probably already read elsewhere. Well, that’s it for now.