I got an email today from WordPress.com, giving me a summary of how my blog has done over the past year.  I thought I’d share it for a few reasons:

• I like stats, and it’s funny / interesting seeing how publishing summary stats lends authority to the “You’re doing a great job!” tone of the message.
• I’ve been seeing much of this data along the way, and it highlights why this blogging thing has been so strange for me.  I’ve tried to keep a tight focus on what I blog about, so as to have a chance of building up a regular readership, but as you can see below my focus has wandered as my life and career path have shifted.
• I still can’t get away from that one day that I scratched a mental itch about Portal’s weird feminism.  And the search terms thing just makes it look like all my visits are accidents.
• Seriously, “fresher than ever”?  At less than two blog posts a month?

Anyway, here’s the auto-generated stuff.

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