Technorati says I should claim my blog by posting a link. I don’t know why I would do that but here goes anyway.

I got as far as We are gonna win the league!

And we did.

“What could he possible be doing instead of his taxes?” you might wonder.

I have been going back through all of my old posts and making sure they are tagged correctly. What could be more important than that?

I have made it as far as July 2006 and Krauthammer claiming that it was ridiculous for liberals to simultaneous claim that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and that the UN inspections should continue.

I still have over three hours before my taxes need to be done.

Nancy Pelosi uses WordPress! I wonder if she has an opinion on the tags vs categories controversy?

Is he famous?

Is he someone I should know?

So far only one person has claimed to know who he is. Could you be the second?

I got StumbledUpon in February. Over a 1000 visits. Woohoo!

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With everyone using RSS these days, web log statistics are now useless. I have no idea whether anyone is even reading this nonsense. The only sign of readership is the occasional comment - for which I am truly grateful. I tell myself that I am writing this stuff for me - and I don’t care if nobody else reads it - but the truth is I am a liar.

One potential solution to this conundrum is to make RSS deliver just a small teaser and force readers to come to my site to get the full bloggy goodness. I understand why that’s a good solution to for professional bloggers like Andrew Sullivan as they need the $$$ from advertising but, since Andrew changed his RSS feed a couple of weeks ago to send just an extract, I have only read about a third of his posts. Now Bob has started doing it (grrrr). I think that’s a fine way to lose readers.
My dilemma is this. Is it more important that people read my blog or that I know they are reading my blog?

I think I’ll just let my readers stay anonymous and hope that someone - probably Julio - will tell me that there is this great site that can track all your subscribers by nationality, OS and hair colour.

Meanwhile, is there anybody out there?

I can’t get the hang of the blogging business. Is it better to leave comments on their blog or write a counter-blog of your own? Maybe you should blog then comment on theirs with a link back to yours? But what if they have trackback turned on? It’s all so confusing. In the end, I decided to comment on Aaron’s blog and reproduce it here.

Kevin said…

I watched the Star Wars movies in order. I thought Episode I was pretty good but went downhill after that.By Episode IV it was like he ran out of ideas or his budget for cool graphics was all gone or something.

Aaron didn’t enjoy it as much as I did…

Last night I watched Star Wars Episode 1. The movie really isn’t half bad except for three things.

… but at least we agreed that the first one was best.

In my RSS feed this morning, I have three blog entries from otherwise normal-seeming people who suggest that maybe it’s somewhat unusual to invade foreign countries without a really good reason. There was mine, of course, and Ron’s - it was Ron who gave me the courage to blog about a dream - and Scott’s (I was going to blog about what big balls Condi Rice has after seeing her on Meet the Press, but Scott has that covered). The other two were a little more subtle than mine - but, then, I am an extreme moderate.

Such a happenstance reminds me of that September morning a few years back when I really, really wanted to do something but there was nothing I could do. I had a brain flash. I found the huge Stars and Stripes in the back of the cupboard and went to hang it outside. I felt just like that dude in the Tony Orlando song when, on his way home from prison, the whole damn bus is cheering because there are a hundred yellow ribbons.

Maybe I am not the only moderate?