I don't get that many readers on my blog -- average is somewhere between eleven and twelve thousand a month. And my stat counter tracks the numbers and all, but only keeps a running log of the last hundred or so.
Most of the hits come from the U.S., but there are people from all over the world who drop round, some from countries of which I have never heard -- I have to google maps to figure out where they are.
The image above is a breakdown of the most recent hundred visitors by country.
Is it great living here in the future, or what?
Yeah, the future is pretty sweet--the lack of jet packs, flying cars and orbital hotels notwithstanding. They routinely reattach limbs now--something that didn't happen when I was a kid. More and better cyberware is being developed every day. I've got virtually instantaneous access IN MY LIVING ROOM to a worldwide web of news, commentary, games, information (and porn) available 24/7 at the push of a few buttons.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the future isn't what I expected back in the days when I lay awake one night and calculated with awe--and trepidation--that I'd be 41 (OLD!) in the unimaginably distant year of 2000. But it's pretty cool nonetheless.
Saw my audiologist yesterday. I wear a hearing aid in my right ear -- been mostly deaf on that side since I blew it out scuba-diving as a boy.
ReplyDeleteThe one I have sits in the ear-canal, hardly noticeable, and it electronic -- it's adjusted by plugging it into a computer, and dialed in so it works on specific frequencies, so you don't get a roar all the time, but rigged so it does best on conversations, which is where most baby-boomers need the help.
Don't quite need one for the other ear yet, but when I do, the new models can link together wirelessly and adjust themselves in unison. Smaller than the tip of my finger, these things.
Not your grampa's hearing aid ...
Saw my audiologist yesterday. I wear a hearing aid in my right ear -- been mostly deaf on that side since I blew it out scuba-diving as a boy.
ReplyDeleteThe one I have sits in the ear-canal, hardly noticeable, and it electronic -- it's adjusted by plugging it into a computer, and dialed in so it works on specific frequencies, so you don't get a roar all the time, but rigged so it does best on conversations, which is where most baby-boomers need the help.
Don't quite need one for the other ear yet, but when I do, the new models can link together wirelessly and adjust themselves in unison. Smaller than the tip of my finger, these things.
Not your grampa's hearing aid ...