the constant skeptic

Ok, time for a healthy look back:

There was a time back in 2004-2006 that this blog was located at http://constantskeptic.blogspot.com (go ahead and check it out for a laugh) when this blog was really an experiment for me to fill my time while I figured out what to do with my life. The best thing about that site is that it was free. Now, years later I still get a rush out of watching my readership grow month by month.

I finally broke into the million rank range according to Alexa.com:
(in case you are not aware, Alexa aggregates site rankings for urls and web pages from across the world)

You can see that everything is on the up and up….

A million sounds pretty bad, but consider the following ball park estimates for how many web sites there are out there:

( via boutell.com )

Web pages in the world, August 2005: 19.2 billion pages were indexed by Yahoo as of August 2005.

Websites in the world, August 2005: 70,392,567 websites were indexed by Netcraft as of August 2005.

Web pages per website: 273 (rounding to the nearest whole number).

Web pages in the world, February 2007: multiplying our estimate of the number of web pages per website by Netcraft’s February 2007 count of websites, we arrive at 29.7 billion pages on the World Wide Web as of February 2007.

WWW FAQs: How many websites are there?

What is interesting is that a lot of you that find my site appear magically via stumbleupon.com, yahoo searches, and google searches for obscure articles about UFOs global warming, and the darjeeling limited….

So be prepared to get what you are looking for as I give in and post on subjects that people actually want to know about as opposed to just posting random ideas that strike me at the moment.