Monthly Archive for December, 2009

Christmas 1963

This pic is dated 1963, which means it was taken in Bolivia, the Christmas before my brother Dennis was born. (click to enlarge)

Several things I like about this picture:

  • The people in it, of course! My Grandpa Brown (Oscar), my Dad, my two older brothers (Rick and Ken) and me
  • The simple toys! A boat, a model airplane, a wooden tool bench
  • The clothes! I love those suits and narrow ties on my Dad and Grandpa!

Successful Upgrade!

Wordpress 2.9 came out today, and I must say there are some nice improvements. Nothing readers will notice, most likely, but several things that make it easier on the back end… an undo feature, and a built-in image editor to name a couple.

Since I just passed my 2 year mark, I will add some stats that I found snooping around in Google Analytics:

  • I’ve had visitors from 49 States (still nobody from Vermont!)
  • 83 countries! (Somebody from Kazakhstan spent over 10 minutes on ComfortZone this year!)
  • My most popular post, Mousetrap Car, has been visited by 619 unique visitors!
  • There’ve been 2,537 unique visitors on this blog. (Many likely by accident, but, hey everybody is welcome!)

Other (I think it’s interesting!):

  • Browsers: 54% of you use Firefox (up from last year), 31% of you use Internet Explorer, and 11% use Safari (both down from last year)
  • Operating systems: 33% of you are on Macs (down slightly from last year), and 66% of you are on PCs (up slightly from last year)
  • Traffic Sources: Referring sites: 55%, direct traffic: 29%, and search engines: 15%
  • In all there have been 205 posts, and 353 comments — Thanks!

Warm up by my fire!

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