If this keeps up, this blog would be a victim of it's own success.  For the month of December, 6,588 distinct host served, 903.3 MB of transmission used out of the 1 GB limit (opps), and 6,619 pages viewed.  The most popular category was the Stock Market ramblings with close to 700 visits compared to a bit over a 1,000 for the Main Page.  A distant 3rd was the Fish section with "German Ram" as the key search word that led the audience to this site.  And, Blog is growing. 

I had lunch with Mr. Imclone (cause he made me soooo much money) this week and we talked about our wives and things they could do while they were at home raising the family.  I said that they (the wives) should do something woth the Internet - like blog!  He told me that a mutual acquaintance's wife took to blogging and over the last 7 to 10 years built up a huge knowledge base on wines (starting from ground zero).  Well, she is now considered one of the top ten authorities on wine because of her blog.  So ladies, let's get with the program!

I started this blog out as a product evaluation for Tucows who is the provider of blogware.  It has gotten a little bit out of hand - heeheehee   I don't want to think that I was instrumental in pressuring Ross to provide a better way to embed pictures for blogware but the end result is that embedding pictures is a lot easier now than when I started (than again once you figure it out it just becomes part of the workflow).  The next feature should be SPELL CHECK!!!  Ross promise that is in the next rev.

If you have been keeping an EYE on CES, you would have read about Bill's view on blogs (in addition to the blue screen of death during his presentation).  Apparently, the next revision of Office and Outlook would support blogs and stuff inside these applications.  Watch out people!  The Black Hole is growing.  Do you remember spell checkers and gramma checkers and on and on of little add-ins and plug-ins?  Where are they?  Inside Office the Black Hole of productivity software - heeheehee.  I guess it is not so much different than the math co-processor disappearing into the microprocessor.  Anyways, watch out Tucows, Goggle, LiveJournal, AOL etc...  But than again, its such a huge market surely there is enough room for everyone? right? 

Thanx again for you patronage!  Best wishes for the New Year!