Popularity
What’s happening to the Internet world? A previous website I tried creating was dismally un-visited. True, in about four years it didn’t progress far beyond “Construction in Progress…” stage, so it made sense that no one bothered to come back. What I couldn’t work out was why they didn’t come the first time.

Blogging like this is much more satisfying. It’s painless enough that I can keep it vaguely fresh. But still no one comes along.
What did I do? I went to the search engines last night and registered with a whole bunch of them. Now I know that’s only yesterday, but so far I’m not even seeing the search engines popping by to see what I’m talking about. And if they don’t know, how can they tell you?

Isn’t the human ego wonderful? I really want you to want to read my drivel! Really, really. I even throw in links to other known sites quite gratuitously and freely in the hope that some e-spider will pick up on e.g. Star Wars background information or Attack of the Clones and get you unsuspectingly trolling back my way.

Oscar Wilde, I believe, said that the only this worse than being spoken about is not being spoken about.
Now, in the 21st century, the only thing worse than a denial of service attack is no visitors at all.

Thanks for dropping by!

Speaking of AOTC, if you are not in Zimbabwe, spare a thought for those of us who will not get the opportunity to see the movie when it opens this week. Some of us spoke about flying to the UK for Wednesday night's opening. I kid you not. Happily, sanity prevailed for once. We have not yet ruled out the prospect of a drive to Messina when the movie gets to South Africa next month.