Being Halloween I could do a Halloween thing here, but I won’t for two reasons:

1. I don’t know what to say
2. If I ever had something interesting to say, it’ll last too little to be worth the effort

I hope you appreciate the fact that I’m not pretending to be cool in not talking about Halloween on Halloween since everybody does.

Since I’m not talking about Halloween, but I don’t want to let this last day of October slip through without posting something (and today I have nothing interesting to say), I guess I’ll just make a quick analysis of my first month here at wordpress.com (ok, its not a whole month, but I wanted to even things up with the end of each month).

In this first 20 days I wrote 12 articles tagged with 23 categories, I added a temporary blogroll with just a few links of my interest, I received two comments (one was just being sarcastic for not finding what he was looking for) out of a total of 82 visits (I’ve been very careful not to browse my pages if not logged in). This makes an average of 3.9 per day, with only one day at 0 and a best day of 13.
Two users are reading my feed, but only one quite regularly, I hope they don’t feel they are wasting their time reading me (beside this one of course and ehy, leave a trace).
My Technorati rank swings between million point two and million point one, while I’ve only being linked twice by a single site (some automatic thing that links all the blogs with SEO as a tag or category) and I am no one’s favorite.

What do I think of these numbers? Am I encouraged to keep up or not?
I don’t think much of them, and whilst I would be obviously happy to receive a little more traffic and especially participation, I’m not here to make numbers, I’m here to waste my time in a constructive way.
So I will keep up as scheduled, up to the day when I will not need this anymore.

My overall feeling about this new blogging experience is not as bright and flawless as I imagined, but definitely not negative at all.
I have been trying not to be as picky and methodical in writing as I’ve always been, but my efforts were not fully satisfactory. I still need to make shorter sentences and avoid brackets, but I hope with time I’ll make it. In addition to that I think it’ll be anyway a good exercise for my written english, so not all is lost.

Since I don’t want to make this post a total bore, here is a funny thing I’ve seen today on youtube.
Enjoy!