I can't believe that today is the tenth anniversary of irenesmith.com (I just renewed the domain.) Actually, I probably would have missed it if it weren't for the statistics mod that I have installed. I recently converted the site to a WordPress blog and one of the referrers in the list was from whois. When I checked out the link, I discovered that I bought the domain irenesmith,.com on July 6, 1999. Not even in this century!

I just wish I had the number of comments on that blog that I have on this one. I get about 200 visits a month and since most of my visitors are using Windows XP, I am fairly confident that these numbers don't count my own visits. So, the question is, with so many visitors, how come most of the comments are from spammers who just want to get visitors to their own sites? So far I've had 228 spams and 16 legitimate comments. To be completely honest, some of the "legitimate" comments were probably spam too from people who say things like, "That's very interesting. I was just thinking about that." In other words, I'm posting this so people will see my link and I have no idea what this post is about.

On the other hand, I suppose spam is better than nothing. But I would surely love it if i had some actual comments too. Once in a while.

Google Irene Smith. Go ahead, I dare you. My web site comes up in the first page. Of course that's only when you search on my name and, unless you know me, you wouldn't be searching for my name, would you? I've never been very lucky when it came to getting my site associated with anything else. I wouldn't even know what to associate it with. Any ideas?

OK, enough shameless plug for my "other" site.

By the way, I've been cross-posting here from irenesmith.com using a WordPress plugin. If it isn't interesting, let me know and I'll stop.