Proof, if any were needed, that not every visitor to the wide wide world of web spends their time downloading porn; visitor stats for this site continue to rise. Admittedly most people come here looking for porn to download, and quickly depart having not found it; but at least we are saving souls for a few moments. From something around 30 visitors in May, to something around 4,030 visitors in August; it ain’t exactly mainstream; but at least it is growing.
And what bountiful delights are forthcoming in September? Well, none really, although I am looking forward to some upcoming events.
First we have the bikers birthday bash where the MD of Highside Tours turns 40 and a lethal combination of racing bikes, suckling pigs, German beer, bikers, suckling bar girls and kart racing are muddled together into three days of excess. I will be there to capture the action and join whenever I think I can get away with it. Beer and kart racing almost certainly, suckling bar girls almost certainly not.
Next is the imminent arrival of my our SUP board. This is the secret weapon for me to hone my rippling torso to perfection and for she who must be obeyed to lose kilos of excess fat; although she might describe it differently.
I am going to fall off, a lot; and if this blog suddenly stops, I have probably drowned; but I am looking forward to the arrival of the new toy, sometime this week possibly.
Continuing the SUP theme, later in the month around 12 SUP boarders will embark on a journey down the river Kwai. Anyone with a sense of adventure and a reasonable level of fitness would volunteer for this trip; so that excludes me. But I am going along to photograph the event from the safety of the support boat. Should be an interesting photographic challenge. Some already absolutely whizzo SUP photographs can be seen here. Who takes these photos? cough
Best of all, at the end of the month I head off to Malaysia to spend a few days with my son and his girlfriend who are visiting on holiday. It coincides with a time of the year where, both of us happen to have birthdays of a significant number of years, so we plan to have an amazing meal somewhere in KL to celebrate the occasion.
More generally, whereas there are a number of perfectly acceptable tourist attractions around Pattaya, there are also a few horrors. I feel the need to visit these horrors, photograph them, and denounce them in cynical and vitriolic posts for the education and amusement of my loyal readers. Please keep reading,
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2008-09-01| The Ghost saysImpressive growth curve there Spike. But, correct me if I’m wrong (and I use the same plugin, so I don’t think I am), but that chart shows page views, not visitors. I’ve never found anywhere in WP-Stats that shows visitors. For that, I needed to set up Google Analytics.
And, to show that great minds think alike, just before finding your post, I had just pushed the PUBLISH (for tomorrow0 button on my similar, stat-filled monthly update.
Must be the first of the month….
2008-09-02| Spike saysMr. Ghost, you are of course correct. My actual number of visitors is probably around 9, but they all have impeccable taste!
2008-09-02| todd saysyeah GA is the best for stats, but there are some real - non porn searching people around reading posts ;)
2008-09-02| Spike saysThen you must be one of the nine with impeccable taste Mr. Todd!
2008-09-02| Billy the Brush saysI imagine, with the single page format that Spike has, that page views will not be so far different from visitors, especially as all those legions of web crawlers appear not to trouble the comments pages too often (with apologies to Mr. Todd) … though, as usual, I speak from a position of profound ignorance and, moreover, as one who gets a proper man to do his own plugins and stuff, a fact about which I am not so proud :-(
2008-09-03| The Ghost saysTrue, hadn’t thought of that. The whole post is on the home page, so why click through?