Home away from home

Hey guys,

I’m currently NOT at home in Seattle right now. In fact, I’m going to be in Yakima over the weekend.

The Internet connection at the Howard Johnson is absolutely abominable, so there won’t be many new media-rich and exciting blog posts. Sorry about that, blame HoJo for putting happy balls on their WiFi antennas.

Till I get back!

–Deathgleaner

Lack of updates

Apologies to all blog readers, the author has been very busy lately.

He will get back to blogging as soon as he unclogs his brain tubes.

“Life is a journey, not a destination”

This post isn’t any ordinary post. It’s the 200th post in Thought Box history.

Way back in May of 2009, I started this blog, very unclear of what to write about. Eventually, I found a niche in the fields of science and technology, which are my two passions. Here’s a timeline of this blog’s milestones:

• First post: May 30th, 2009
• Post No. 10: June 15th, 2009. 16 days from 1st post
• Post No. 20: July 4th, 2009. 35 days
• Post No. 30: July 16th, 2009. 47 days
• Post No. 40: July 30th, 2009. 61 days
• Post No. 50: August 24th, 2009. 86 days, and this is still one of the most popular posts!
• Post No. 60: September 27th, 2009. 120 days
• Post No. 70: November 4th, 2009.158 days
• Post No. 80: December 1st, 2009. 185 days
• Post No. 90: January 5th, 2010. 220 days
• Post No. 100: February 15th, 2010. 261 days
• Post No. 110: March 15th, 2010. 289 days
• Post No. 120: April 10th, 2010. 315 days
• Post No. 130: May 18th, 2010. 353 days
• Post No. 140: July 4th, 2010. 400 days. Interestingly enough, a reblog of a previous milestone!
• Post No. 150: August 11th, 2010. 438 days
• Post No. 160: September 11th, 2010. 469 days
• Post No. 170: January 2nd, 2011. 582 days
• Post No. 180: June 5th, 2011. 736 days
• Post No. 190: January 5th, 2012. 950 days
• Post No. 200: January 16th, 2011. 961 days; or 2 years and 231 days

A graphic representation for those of you visual learners (including me):

Like that quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, this blog will never stop growing. Who knows when No. 500, No. 1000, or even more, will come out?

Then again, I don’t blog because of the milestones. I blog because I love it!

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Hiatus.

Unfortunately, I have been very busy lately. This is why I have not blogged for a month.
I am sorry to say that I have to put this blog on hiatus.

Coming soon! Musical dissection

Musical dissection, as I call it, will soon be a new set of blog posts on Thought Box. Each post will focus on a piece from Classical literature (sorry, pop music fans, I’m not too big on that stuff).

Basically, I will find a piece of music anywhere from the Baroque to the Contemporary literature time span. There will be a background on the piece, background on the composer, a Youtube video of a performance, and a measure-by-measure analysis.

Now you may be questioning, “what gave you the idea to do this?”

Goodbye, Hall of Shame

If you’ve looked at the top of my blog, you’ll see pages like About/Policy, Contact, and then the dreaded Hall of Shame. Well, the Hall of Shame will be no more. I stopped posting entries into it last November, because there was too much spam. Instead, if I got a spam comment, I just deleted it.

But, even though the page is going away, not all is lost! You can download the data from the Hall of Shame below, conveniently put in a PDF (sorry, no cans here):

http://deathgleaner.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/spamdata-final.pdf (16 pages, 854 KB)

Happy 2nd anniversary, Thought Box!

Today, May 30, marks the second anniversary of this blog. I wouldn’t have known and the day would have passed by just normally, but thanks to Google Calendar, the fact that it was already my blog’s 2nd anniversary gave me quite a shock!

I started writing here two years ago, and now this blog has accumulated:

• 176 posts
• 22 categories
• 586 tags, which I desperately need to clean up
• 313 comments, and best of all, no spam, thanks to Akismet!

Note to self: Think fast!

I’ve come to the conclusion that the reason I haven’t been blogging so much is because of my tendency to think things through. Normally, this is a good quality and most people appreciate it. However, it’s also the reason why I haven’t posted anything in 2 weeks. It takes me time to think through what I write, and I always put quality over quantity.

So I’ve been thinking, if I want to blog more, I should probably go for the quantity first. I know this is totally against my nature, but I’ll try it out.

Let’s see what happens.

–Deathgleaner

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.