and she said.. "how you interpret the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"

Here, on this day Tuesday July 20th in the year 2004 britcoal.blogspot.com received it's 10,000th page load at 11:15:07 am EST.

Bummer that a lot of sites get more hits in one day than this site has gotten in, oh, close to three years I guess.. but there is something to be said for quality, not quantity, right? right?

*crickets*

Right. Whatever. Anyhow, here is a little recap care of sitemeter:

As one can see, the highest month I've ever had thus far was in August of 2003 when I received well over 900 unique visits and over 1400 page views. This month corresponds directly to the month in which I met the girl (aug 9th) and she consequently discovered my blog a few days later and proceeded to read every entry.. for better or worse. Everytime I look at that month with it's peaking visits I get that bad feeling in my stomach.. the one where you know someone was once interested enough to look into you, who you are, what you're about.. and you know that they are no longer. Sure, when things are brand new they're exciting, interesting. Enthusiasm dies down.. yah, and I die down. The downward slope of visits from over 900 in August, ~650 in September, bottoming out at 400 in October just about mimics the sad and unfortunate tale of the sadly romantic Michael and his lossing battle against the dark force that is wrong place wrong time.

Anyway, continuing on with the nonsense data...

Time Zone Share:

    45% EST

    29% PST

    08% CST

    10% Asia

    07% UK / Europe

Operating Systems:

    70% WinNT Based (2000, XP)

    12% Mac Based

    07% WinXX Based (95, Mill, 98)

    01% Unix/Linux

Browsers

    74% Internet Explorer 6.x

    22% Netscape 5.x

    04% Internet Explorer 5.x

Traffic Predictions

Based on the last months worth of visits (a mediocre month, by the looks of things) the predicted traffic for the upcoming month is 678 page views, 546 unique visits. Extrapolated out over 12 months that accounts for 6552 unique visits over the next year.

Take it for what it's worth.