Monthly Archive for December, 2009

Christmas 1963

Published on December 23, 2009 in Family and Long Ago & Far Away. 1 Comment

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!

Published on December 18, 2009 in This blog. 1 Comment

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!

Published on December 8, 2009 in Home. 1 Comment

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