Although I started this blog about 15 months ago, it was last year, August 1st, that I last missed a day of blogging–which makes today the 366th consecutive day of blogging for me.

The blog will hopefully get cleaned up a little during my August break (working at a university has its perks, long vacations being one of them). Other BfAD news: while the four-month increase in viewership (which peaked in June) has slowed, the number of visitors is still growing and is now nearly double what it was in February. July had roughly 10,300 different people visit the blog (as the IP counts), with an average of 680 daily visitors downloading almost 7 GB of data.

The blog successfully made the transition from Myacen to Surpass Hosting without any hitches (despite a short outage a few weeks ago), and Surpass is so far doing OK. You have to stay with a host for 6 months to a year before you can really gauge their effectiveness, so we’ll see.

Otherwise, we’ve survived a barrage of blog comment spam and referral spam without yet resorting to requiring registration for commenting, and although “eyelid twitching” is still the most-searched-for term, the category “Reasons to Vote for Kerry” is right up there near the top, which means that people are looking at Kerry more–and “Bush” is not anywhere near the top of the search terms, despite the fact that I mention him almost every other entry. “Air America” fills out the top of the search list, as befits their good performance in the radio ratings.

Google sent 3,910 people to this blog this month, followed by Yahoo with 2,048, and MSN with 1,361. Among the more exotic locales from which visitors came are Latvia, Syria, Niue (huh? Oh, it’s in Polynesia), Lebanon, Belize, and the Cocos Islands.

Now for year two.