Strange But True

I got a new hit counter the other day. Er, well, I got two of them to be exact. One that I let all of you see, and one that is invisible. The visible one makes me happy because it counts all page loads as hits and doesn't care if I'm the one doing the hitting, which boosts the numbers. The other one, however doesn't count when I visit, and doesn't count repeat visits in the total number of hits for the day. It also has all kinds of statistics attached to it so I can see who has been visiting, where they're from, their cat's name, etc.

While this does make me a bit paranoid on one level, it also appeals to my geeky side. I like numbers. They're simple and while they* don't actually mean a whole lot, it's fun to pretend they do.

So, just to let you know, today, April 8th, 2005:

8% of people who visited my blog stayed for more than an hour
58% stayed for less than 5 seconds (wankers)
90% were from America
3% were from Portugal
and
SuperMikeyPants visited 17 times

I promise to come up with something more interesting to write about in the near future.

*"They" being my blog's statistics, not numbers in general.

PS I am very confused as to why Blogger's spell checker doesn't know the word "blog". It also doesn't know "wanker"...