I recently found an old cd-r in a box that had a backup of my original blog that I started in 2004 at danroundhill.net (now defunct). I thought it would be a great idea to use XML files for blog entries (🤦🏻♂️)! Of course this became a huge pain to manage. I eventually coded up my own rudimentary CMS that used PHP and MySQL, and after that migrated it all to WordPress in 2006! It’s been happy ever since 😁.
The data team at Automattic are wizards. Actual wizards that know magic! Check out the annual review for danroundhill.com:
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 64,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Looks like I should post on Android development more often!
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 40,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 56 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 248 posts. There were 246 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 385mb. That’s about 5 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was February 3rd with 383 views. The most popular post that day was wpToGo.
The top referring sites in 2010 were android.com, facebook.com, codex.wordpress.org, friendsofhubsandcaps.blogspot.com, and android.wordpress.org.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for android listview, wptogo, developing android apps, android listview xml, and listview android.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
wpToGo November 2008
278 comments
Working with the Android ListView December 2009
15 comments
10 Tips for Developing Android Apps April 2010
5 comments
Aero Black Cursors for Windows Vista November 2006
4 comments
Twenty Ten WordPress Theme is Here! April 2010
6 comments
As you can see, I’m working on a new design. There’s a lot to fix still, so it’ll be messy for a few days!
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For a fun little project I made an iPhone optimized version of my blog. You can now visit danroundhill.com from an iPhone and get a cool interface for viewing my latest posts or flickr photos. I really liked how i.bloglines.com looked so I borrowed some of their code and then integrated it with wordpress. It wasn’t that hard to do! The webkit browser is really amazing, here’s hoping it ends up in more mobile devices in the future.
Came across a great video on youtube that makes me hunger for season 3 of LOST! Check it out and become even more confused…
ps I also changed up the look of the site a bit, using an image from a wheat field that I took on a trip to Eastern Washington.
I was bored so I added a hidden easter egg to the site today. See if you can find it! And hey no looking at the source, you hackers!
