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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2008.02.28

Today my website logged its 2.5 millionth page request, excluding images, my own edits, and assorted junk like CSS. That's a lot of reading.

Of course, it's not all that much when you consider that it's been online since September of '98, but hey, it's over 700 views a day. It's been a long time since I had that kind of regular traffic, but I think that's because the Internet's grown so much that a single personal home page has doodly/squat relevance now. Or maybe it's Facebook that's capturing all that traffic. I'll carry on, regardless.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl