Well, next month marks the one year birthday of this blog, and I’m proud to say that in the past year, I’ve squeaked out 414 posts, moderated 190 comments, and deleted 4514 spam comments. My human pageviews reached 11,000 for the first time ever in January, and my average overall visitors per day surpassed a thousand this week for the first time. My traffic is now where the old VoIP Weblog traffic used to be, so I’m proud of that accomplishment. This traffic is inclusive of my non-blog/home-page traffic, as well.

Over the past year, which saw this blog transition from a home-recording and music technique blog into a full-on IP communications blog, I made it onto a few lists–some organic and others purely statistical. So, for that I’m very flattered. I also discovered that I’m the “Sucksmaster”; that is, the word sucks creeps into my vernacular on such a regular basis that I’m afraid Technorati is going to penalize me for trying to game Google traffic for hits on the keyword ‘sucks’. This has prompted me to investigate the Slang Thesaurus, which will hopefully aide me in avoiding abuse and overuse of guttertalk terms such as sucks. After all, I believe it became officially illegal to say anything ‘sucks’ or ‘rocks’ some time during the grunge era.