An interesting thing happened yesterday.<\/p>\n
About once or twice a day I’ll get a notice that someone has registered on my blog. Now, the vast vast majority of the time these are spam-bots that have figured out how to register (they are getting smarter all the time). I then have to go in and delete them before they can post about gambling or Cialis or what have you.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I got another notice – and a bit later I got an actual comment from that registrant. I didn’t recognize the name and so I emailed the commenter to find out more. turns out I don’t know her at all – but she stumbled upon my blog and has been reading it. I also had a comment from a coworker (who doesn’t have a computer at home) that he read about something I’d done recently on my blog. This got me thinking – who is reading this? I’ve ruminated in the past on here about whether having a blog is necessary, narcissistic, detrimental and so on. However, everything changes if people I don’t even know are actually interested enough to read it. So, this one time, I’m going to ask anyone who reads this to register and leave a message (on this posting). And that means anybody and everybody, whether you know me, hate me, love me or don’t even know me at all. I’m just curious as I so often write on here thinking my only audience is my father (and maybe Byron and aunt Lois). Then I see that 25 “people” have viewed the comments, or 35 or 65… and I wonder “are these mostly internet spiders just cataloging the content, or are they actual people (that I know or not)?” My server stats tell me people from England, China, Germany and other countries have visited the page – I always wonder if they really are people.<\/p>\n
So, if you’re reading this right now, please step up and register (if you haven’t before) and leave a comment saying so. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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