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.

Sexy Stats (via WordPress.com News)

Yes! This is what I’ve been waiting for!

You may have noticed a change to your stat charts a couple of weeks ago. We ditched Flash in place of a more robust charting library called Flot. If you didn't notice, go check it out because you can view all of the new charts with modern browsers including mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad. Sooo sexy! Today we updated the charts to use bars instead of points and lines. We've also made the stats page super sexy. Each module can be opened and … Read More

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WordPress: Unblocked.

WordPress has just been unblocked at the place that I work.

One small step for me, one giant step for net neutrality.

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.

Thank you WordPress!

That’s the newly redesigned WordPress bar (I’m not sure what it’s called.) It looks a lot prettier and gives the user more control over all of his blogs. Now you can write a new blog post on one blog, then jump to another blog and moderate comments on it. Awesome functionality! 

And one more cool thing: it floats on top so you don’t have to

I love it! Thank you WordPress

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.

Reblogs now a feature in WordPress!

As you may have noticed, from time to time I reblog posts from other websites. What’s great now is that WordPress now knows that “we all like to reblog.” Therefore, they’ve added a “like” button.

Congrats WordPress. One small step for you and one giant advancement for the rest of us

Have you ever come across a blog post that you enjoyed so much you wanted to easily share it with the readers of your own blog? Sure, you can copy and paste the link and perhaps even a snippet of text with your own comments, but overall it's not a particularly enjoyable experience. We wanted to change this and make sharing other posts with your readers as easy as posting to your blog. Today we're introducing a new like and reblog feature enabled … Read More

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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: