origins of name sittingnut

this is inexcusable self absorption. so no excuse.

my online name 'sittingnut' predates this blog by more than a decade. i have forgotten the exact birth date somewhere in early 90s. one can still find some of its early outings scattered over the internet.

while name intentionally means and hints at several things, it is actually made out of names of sioux leaders 'sitting bull' and 'crazy horse'.

sitting bull

crazy horse

images from wikipedia.

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my twitter - http://twitter.com/sittingnut
this blog's twitter - http://twitter.com/llibertarian

neglectful

i have been neglecting the blog. bad! resolved to reform, again.

in the meantime, i am posting one of my favorite songs i have neglected by not listening; tanita tikaram's twist in my sobriety.



as with greater part of my favorites it is from 80s; from her 1988 album, ancient heart. great music video too.

a side effect of the ability maintain a huge portable selection of music is that if we forget to include an old fav, we may not realize the fact for some time. bc, while we try to listen to new music outside the selection, reasonably enough, we do not feel the need to listen to old ones outside.

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my twitter - http://twitter.com/sittingnut
this blog's twitter - http://twitter.com/llibertarian

will be back soon :-)

almost 2 months without blogging here. :-(

will be posting soon..

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my twitter - http://twitter.com/sittingnut
this blog's twitter - http://twitter.com/llibertarian

big thank you to visitors to my blog + stats

some blogs make a habit of boasting about their visitor numbers. groundviews, terrorist parroting, peacenik ngo run, so called "citizen journalist", blog, in particular sends periodic spam to all and sundry boasting about how many visitors it gets (equating two different things, visitors with pageviews, btw).

whenever i receive them (as i did at the end of last week about their stats so far in january), i am always surprised that my blog, maintained by me in spare time, written by a single person, at a rate of about 1 post a week (1.25 to be exact), has comparable (though lower by about 25-33%) visitor figures to that blog, written by variety of ppl, at a rate of several posts a day, and maintained by especially paid employees.

lol.

so i thought i will take this opportunity to boast about my stats, and thank my visitors .

did i mention that my english (my third language, but only one i can type) is atrocious, my style while direct is aesthetically non existent, and that most of my posts (mostly on politics) are too long? not to mention the fact that i have not updated the template for 4 years.

so again,
thank you very much for visiting in spite of all that.

i will post some google analytics figures for january (probably the best month for some time due to the presidential election and the number of posts i published ). statcounter gives somewhat different (higher) figures.
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google analytics - for january 2010 - 34,441 visits, 78,110 pageviews, 23,560, absolute unique visitors

statcounter - for january 2010 - 84,857 page loads, 39,275 visitors


google analytics - daily average visitors (not pageviews) and time of visits - 1,111 per day


google analytics -where the visitors came from - 116 countries

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my twitter - http://twitter.com/sittingnut
this blog's twitter - http://twitter.com/llibertarian