A narcissistic moment

Please excuse my narcissitic tendencies where my visitor stats are concerned!

Those of you who visit here regularly will have noticed by the number of bits of tracking code scattered around, that I am more than a little interested in seeing who has been here!

This week I am hoping to make it to what I see as a tiny milestone.....10000 hits, I never in a million moments of imagination envisaged when I began this, that anyone would read it let alone that number. There are those among us who have far more impressive stats but for me what I have is just fine. I might add here that my stats are reasonably accurate. I persist in using the less than professional Bravenet counter purely because it is the only one that allows me to ignore my own hits without having the luxury of a static I.P. and thereby does not artificially inflate my figures. On the odd occasion I have lost the cookie and registered my own visits I have even been know to subtract them! How's that for honesty? Lol.

Hidden away there are others that supply me with much improved tracking facilities, it fascinates me to see who has been here and where they came from etc. To be able to watch someone navigate my tiny little patch of the w.w.w. and know they are in the Bronx, Saudi, Spain, Canada or wherever and to narrow it down to a specific city or closer is still just amazing to me.

So like I said, apologies for my narcissism and to those of you who visit, ta very much!. I will endeavor, with all this technology, to define and report back who exactly makes the 10000th hit when it happens but I make no guarantees! I recently read a blog in which the author was thanking his 100000th visitor, hell, if I ever make it to that I will throw a party but by then I imagine I will be too decrepit to join in! :o)