“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.

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!

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.

New Years’ Resolution: Post more to my blog.

“There is a saying among writers: to write more, write more. The hardest part of blogging isn’t the tools – it’s what goes on between your ears. Many people start blogs with excitement, but lose courage when facing the blank post page, or chicken out before hitting publish. Here at WordPress.com, we know. And we’re here to help” (Source: WordPress.com News).

First of all, Thank You WordPress for doing me a great service. Second of all, I totally agree. This blog has been on the back burner and has been stagnating for over a month now. It seems that I’ve been drained of all my thoughtfulness. If this continues, “Thought Box” will just become “___ Box.”

Hopefully, in 2011, things will improve. And they’re looking good already.

Have a great New Year’s,

–Deathgleaner

Happy November! Haven’t posted in forever!

Well, this is Deathgleaner again. First post in more than a month. Why such a long wait?

Well, I’ve been busy. As usual.

Expect a flood of posts in the next couple of weeks as I relax to oblivion.

thanks, deathgleaner.

Blog Stats for August 2010

Blog views for this month were very erratic. We broke the old record of most number of views in a day (113 views) several times this month, thanks to fierce promotion on sites like alphainventions.com and BlogSurfer.us.

From now on, these blog stats will be posted in a separate page.

Blog Stats for July 2010

It was a pretty jumpy month. The spikes in the graph roughly correspond to when I published a new blog post.

Blog Stats for June 2010

Not a lot of particularly interesting things have happened this month, but average page views per day seem stable.

Any days where my blog exceeds 50 views, I’m excited; any that exceed 30, I’m happy. There were a number of days in the 30s or higher. I’m happy.

Happy 1st Birthday to this Blog!

Wow! Believe it or not Thought Box is already at its one year birthday!

Sure, one years old and this blog is still in its infancy. But for me, it’s been a long trip down the road.

So let’s go back and take a look down TB Memory Lane: