I had a burst of traffic on my blog last week when 10\u2019s of eager internet users stumbled across my little rant fest. I try to avoid traffic for traffic\u2019s sake (past experiences tell me that I could merely comment half-heartedly on any of the sacred subjects of the testing world and generate a significant amount of comments and traffic (and hate mail) \u2013 but I\u2019m too busy to deal with that). For the most part, I just like to (carefully) write what\u2019s on my mind and see if anyone else can relate.<\/p>\n
But I digress\u2026<\/p>\n
Raymond Chen<\/a> included me in his quarterly linkfest<\/a> last week. For those of you not familiar with Raymond, you may think \u201cbig whoop \u2013 a link\u201d, but Raymond gets thousands of readers \u2013 dozens of which read the article on my site then left :}. A colleague also pointed out to me that a few folks on mini-msft\u2019s blog<\/a> were talking about me \u2013 I popped on, added some context and popped off. I had 60-ish referrals from that link, so apparently there are still a lot of people still reading mini\u2019s stuff (which squashes my theory that the mini-msft commenters were comprised of 15 or so whiners who all think the world is out to get them).<\/p>\n And now things are back to normal (at least as far as my visitors per day trend goes). Welcome to any new regular readers, buy my book, leave a comment, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a burst of traffic on my blog last week when 10\u2019s of eager internet users stumbled across my little rant fest. I try to avoid traffic for traffic\u2019s sake (past experiences tell me that I could merely comment half-heartedly on any of the sacred subjects of the testing world and generate a significant…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}