Cracks Milestone

We passed the 20,000 visitor mark yesterday just after midnight here on the Left Coast. It was a visitor from Turkey who, oddly, was searching for an MPEG video of Basic Instinct 2. My apologies to that visitor--you'll never see anything like that around here and I don't know how Google Turkey got you here. But sandwiching that visitor were folks from California and Columbia University who were checking out posts on John McCain and Paul Krugman (respectively), which is definitely more up the Cracks alley.

We've been tracking visitors using Site Meter for almost exactly a year, and we've been able to chart an amazing growth in that time. Last April we had about 200 visitors for the entire month--that's about 2.5 days of visitors these days. And we've had pretty steady growth during the year, save for an amazing spike during the wild ride of the Rove-a-Palooza/LibbyLibbyLibby falderal of last November and a slight dip due to February fatigue (brought on by a mix of typical gray Seattle environs and the blues over the incessant drumbeat of corruption/illegality/hubris of the BushCo administration).

On behalf of my co-blogger, Old Fogey (who's still on sabbatical somewhere on the seas), thanks to all of you who make a stop here at Cracks. I'm definitely feeling more focused than earlier this winter, especially on climate change/global warming/energy issues, and I plan to be pulsing that personal energy into more regular Hot-in-Herre postings (see previous item)--though I'm still trying to find a good blogging balance with my thankful freelance busy-ness of late. Speaking of which, I gotta get down to work, but I'll be back with a midday news roundup.

cheers.agen

[PS] Just noticed (thanks to a heads up from FotF Kat) that I had turned on comment moderation without realizing that I actually had to approve of the comments. Heh (whoops)... sorry 'bout that. There have been many comments the last couple of days, and I'm very grateful for all your responses. Keep 'em coming, and I'll make sure that this comment protocol (sorry, I've been watching too much 24) is streamlined.