This morning I checked my webstats just out of curiosity and low and behold, I had 288 visits in one day. I’ve never had more than 100 so I knew something was up. When I looked at where people had come from, I saw that I was linked to from John Lopez who is a writer for the Houston Chronicle! He has a blog on the Chronicle’s website and he wrote about the Astros’ big win the other night. Somehow he found my blog entry about watching the game. Here’s a quote from his column.
Astros fans from all corners of the world checked in for this one. None regretted a moment of it.
The words “Astros fans” was a link to my blog. He has two other links in the sentence which are to a blog in Illinois & Washington DC. I’m not sure how Budapest, DC, & Illinois make up “all corners of the world,” but there it is.
It’s pretty cool to make the paper. I guess this is the online version of cutting the article out and putting it in my scrapbook.
Wow! A world famous blogger. What a long reach! I couldn’t believe the game lasted so long. I decided to watch the 8th and 9th and then watch the Cowboys who were just starting. The Cowboy game ended before the Astros.
THAT is SO COOL!!!! You’re FAMOUS!!!
Dude, like you exist now ahead of Tom Seely the furniture maker. Way to go!
BTW, now that everyone is linking to your blog, you might want to configure your Permalinks in WP.
Here’s the format I’d suggest:
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Since you’re on a Windows server, they say you should probably prefix that structure with “/index.php/”.
That way when all those famous people link to your blog there won’t be any geeky “?” in the link. (Of course, only a geek like me would notice those anyway….)