Sometime this spring I passed the half million mark in the “words I’ve written on this blog” counter. That’s half a million words in six years. Some interesting statistics:

• Most popular proper nouns:
• Island (478 times)
• Oliver (452 times)
• Charlottetown (347 times)
• Catherine (334 times)
• Internet (312 times)
• CBC (258 times)
• Canada (231 times)
• Number of mentions of Aliant: 159
• Number of uses of word compelling: 60
• Number of uses of word nifty: 12
• Number of uses of word shit: 17
• Number of uses of word fuck: 9
• Number of uses of word love: 65
• Most prolific month: June, 2003 (22,787 words)
• Most prolific day: July 27, 2004 (4,018 words)
• Words written by year:
• 2005: 69,818 words
• 2004: 139,390 words
• 2003: 155,547 words
• 2002: 100,924 words
• 2001: 71,778 words
• 2000: 10,428 words
• 1999: 676 words
• Most popular links to other websites:
• Island Tel (58 links)Yankee (35 links)
• Air Canada (22 links)
• Steven Garrity (21 links)
• The Old Farmer’s Almanac (21 links)
• Zap Your PRAM (20 links)
• silverorange (19 links)
• Maritime Electric (13 links)
• ISN (12 links)
• Brackley Drive-in (12 links)
• Number of graphics and photos: 618