Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: Blog stuff

Monday, March 1, 2010

Blog stuff

The Carteach0 blog has seen a bump today, Normally it gets about 1200 page views a day, but the last time I checked it was at 3700 and rising.

What really gets me about those numbers is the above pie chart. About 20% of visitors spend from 30 seconds to more than an hour reading the site.

An hour?? It's my blog, and I don't read there for an hour!

4 comments:

Z@X said...: "An hour?? It's my blog, and I don't read there for an hour!"

Seriously, the stuff you put over there is pro quality, some of the best on the net; great prose and photos.; March 1, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Carteach said...: Thanks James. The numbers are a little gobsmacking though, for just some regular guy like me. I know a Tam or a JayG would call it an off day, but my little world was impressed (g).; March 2, 2010 at 7:28 AM
Crucis said...: Hmmm, I can't see the pie chart. I don't have anything blocked for your site.

That said, I've a few folks drop by mine and stay 1/2 and hour. Now my postings tend to be big, but they shouldn't take a 1/2 hour to read!

Bloggers are weird and those who read us are weirder!

Ain't life grand!?; March 2, 2010 at 12:10 PM
Anonymous said...: I is weirder and weird, but I do like youse guys blogs. But really not a half hours worth, cuts into my range time.

See Ya; March 2, 2010 at 6:47 PM

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I have this philosophy.... All humans are faced with a choice.

They can become students of human nature, trying to recognize the good and bad within themselves... or they can choose to ignore human nature, and act simply on drives, desires, and instincts. The former is what sets mankind aside from animals, and the latter is to act as an animal.

Making the first choice is harder, more complicated, and creates a difficult path to follow... for it's the basis of knowing right from wrong. There are those who study human nature, and themselves, and actively try to better themselves and do what is right. There are others... people who study human nature, note the flaws inherent to the unthinking herd, and use them as a means to control.

There is no danger greater than the refusal to see, and to think. Doing so leaves one a pawn to anyone awake, aware, and driven to power over others.

Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.