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OneAndOneIs2

Tue, Jul 31, 2007

[Link][Icon]The winning lottery numbers will be:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. With 7 as the bonus ball.

Yes...

I'm good at telling the future, clearly.

It always surprises me, which things I write become popular. When I wrote the defrag post, for instance, I thought it might be used occasionally on a few Linux forums for a while and then vanish into obscurity. Instead it hit the front page of Digg and still gets around 700 visits a day, a year after it was first published.

A few other posts get a moderate amount of traffic: The guide on tunnelling Portable Apps traffic securely through your home PC gets a gratifying half-dozen hits a day, for instance. I flatter myself that it's a useful guide.

Most of the posts that I would consider useful, though, tend to fade away into the ether. And throwaway ramblings like last week's "GPL v3 killer" wind up plastered on TuxMachines and the front page of FSDaily.

Makes me wonder why I bother working on all the useful stuff, really. Maybe if I just rambled a bit more...

So... more posts like this one, coming up! [Smiley]

2 comments • Categories: Omni, My Life

Comments:

Comment from: hari [Member] Email · http://hari.literaryforums.org
All my best posts (or what I consider the best) seem to be buried with no publicity and very few comments.

The perils of writing a blog... :-p
PermalinkPermalink 31/07/07 @ 14:15
Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/
And another case in point:

http://reddit.com/info/2bjd6/comments

My blog stats "Referrals" page has had nothing but reddit.com visible all day. For a post I wrote a year ago.

I just don't get it...
PermalinkPermalink 02/08/07 @ 14:43

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