Flashes of (near) fame
I had a burst of traffic on my blog last week when 10’s of eager internet users stumbled across my little rant fest. I try to avoid traffic for traffic’s 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) – but I’m too busy to deal with that). For the most part, I just like to (carefully) write what’s on my mind and see if anyone else can relate.
But I digress…
Raymond Chen included me in his quarterly linkfest last week. For those of you not familiar with Raymond, you may think “big whoop – a link”, but Raymond gets thousands of readers – 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’s blog were talking about me – 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’s 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).
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.