Happy Anniversary to Admirable Thoughts: Writings of Code Monkey. February 1, 2010, marks the fifth of this blog. Every anniversary, I write a yearly review of the blog as a way to refresh our memories about why this blog exists. Also, I list stats about this blog that probably only I care about.

As always, feel free to leave comments, email me or contact me with the contact form about what you love or hate about the blog, changes you would like to see, or how this blog has changed you life.

Reasons For The Blog:
I had a few reasons for starting this blog. One was because I figured it would be good to know how to setup blogs in case I had to do one for professional reasons since I do a lot of website work. Another reason for this blog was to help improve my writing and grammar skills.

Titles:
After my first entry, I decided that once and in while, I would have a bullet point format of thoughts called Monkey Meditations. If the entry was not Monkey Meditations, the title of the entry would be a line from some song. Hopefully, it gives my blog a little bit of character to call my own.

There is a link that is in on the left side bar called Name That Title; so if anyone wanted to know what song the title was from, they could find out. Some lyrics get used for specific entry types and that is explained on the Name That Title page.

Stats:

• Entries:
  

  Type	Past Year	Overall
  Entries	52	332
  Monkey Meditations	7	56

  The number of entries last year was down by 28. So I guess I was slacking some on getting some post done.

• Categories:
  

  Type	Past Year	Overall
  Faith	4	41
  Family	6	54
  Friends	5	64
  General	20	106
  Hiking	6	42
  Music	2	32
  News	9	54
  Sports	21	130

  Some stories where in multiple categories.

• Entry Song Types:
  

  Type	Past Year	Overall
  Country	22	130
  Christian	12	88
  Rock and/or Roll	1	14
  Other	0	8

  I do not include the special titles in this count.

• Comments:
  

  Type	Past Year	Overall
  Number of Comments	63	390
  Uniquie People Who Left Comments	10	34

  Thank you for the comments. I truly appreciate each one.

Based on those signed up for the blog’s emails updates, people who have emailed me about the blog, those those leave comments, and those who use RSS readers to know when the site has a new story I believe there about 40 regular readers. So the Monkey Pen (what I call the readers of the blog — a name that came from the readers) grew by two from last year! We have continued to grow every year.

There maybe others who check out the blog now and then as well. However, I don’t have a good numbers for that.

Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule and reading this blog. I do feel privileged that you read it.

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