More interesting than a cardigan, apparently.

As I had mentioned in my last post, I never had any intention of posting regularly to this blog, except to update anyone who might care with photographs of my time here.

However, upon editing the blog, and going to a section called 'My Dashboard', I noticed something quite perculiar.

The site had received some comments about the photographs, but one was from someone I didn't know.  My suspicions were aroused, so I decided to half-heartedly investigate further.  The guy who commented was a "graphic designer" or some such, but it remained a mystery as to why he commented on my site telling me to visit his.

WordPress has little news items and bits of interest for those who care about wordly events or other peoples' blogs, and one of these little snippets of information is a Top Seven of the fastest growing WordPress blogs. 

Lo and behold when my eye indifferently glided upon the who's who of fast-paced, contemporary blogging, I noticed my humble little photo gallery topping it off.  So yes, I was quite confused. 

I have posted two comments (including this one), the effort for which I took no part in, and have maybe 40 photographs that have no description or context whatsoever, the comments system for each photograph doesn't even really work as it should, and of all the WordPress blogs, mine is the fastest growing.  I remained confused.

I decided to investigate, so I checked out the "competition" to see who I was pitting my commenting skills against.  In seventh place you'll notice the amusingly entitled merp.  You may be forgiven for thinking that it's a blog dedicated to a Middle Earth Role Playing community or a chronicle of the Monkey Eating Ravenous People of northern Peru.  However you'd be wrong, it is in fact all about knitting, and the "merp" refers to the possible sound a llama would make.

As we go further up the list there are blogs about geeky technical things that are far beyond my comprehension, and others about peoples' lives that no one cares about.  Kim Possible: Remixed is a grossly impractical webcomic that's based on some cartoon.  Apparently it is updated twice a day and the latest post was made on September 30th 2006.  Whoever owns this blog should forget about their poor webcomic and rather comment on what planet Earth is really like three months from now.  My confusion began to lift.

It became clear then that the guy who commented on the very post below this one must have thought that my site was so fantastically popular with the masses that he must get in on that action and advertise his work ASAP.  Or something.  The comment has since been deleted as I was always told never to talk to strangers, and well, since the invention of the Internet the frequency of that has increased by 7,604,832,902.3421%.

I thought about ways in which I could make my little blog more popular and really get it out there to the people, maybe even make some money on the back of it.  Then I remembered that I only made it to provide my mum with photographic evidence that I wasn't pimping myself out to Chinese businessmen to pay for my crack addiction.  You have to pay to see those photographs.