"Cripes !", as seemingly countless British comic book characters have said over the last century, I appear to have got the most popular blog on http://blogs.sun.com for the first time ever in my blogging lifetime.
Let's hope it's because of interest in the talk and presentation I'm giving on "Case Studies of Enterprise Architecture" this coming Monday (which I reported a couple of days ago) and not because it's a slow news day at Sun...
I was pleasantly surprised to find I'd made #1 most popular blog on our collective blog server after finishing off some work tonight (ah, I hear you think, the shear excitement of weekend work).
Here's the screen grab - which as you can guess I'm kind of proud of (third column along: "Popular Blogs" - lol).
Screen Grab taken on the 16th of February, 2008, at 19:47
Since writing this entry marking this landmark (sic) I'm even more surprised to find that I'm the victim (or is that 'lucky winner' ?) of comment spam. Although I've also noticed that they stopped at adding comments on my blog entry about Tom Hanks being a Villa Fan and so, in the style of one of the Catherine Tate sketches doing the rounds "the dirty, Villa dodging... " (expletive optional).
I'll do some analysis of the comments as I'm not sure yet whether to moderate (basically delete) them, it'll be my first time at that too.
And to think that I didn't even have to hold Frank Zappa over my face to get all these page hits (although I hope to join in the 'sleeveface' phenomenon as soon as I can find where I've buried the last of my vinyl).
Well, Wayne, my comment is legit. Congrats. I'm interested in your EA story. If you have anything to share on the flip side (ie. video, preferably not YouTube though) I'll check it out.
Posted by Carolyn on February 16, 2008 at 09:57 PM GMT #
congrats, Wayne!
Posted by MaryMary on February 17, 2008 at 01:03 AM GMT #
Cool! :) Congrats!
Posted by Jim Grisanzio on February 17, 2008 at 01:55 PM GMT #
Thanks All !
Posted by Wayne Horkan on February 17, 2008 at 04:23 PM GMT #
ah, now, you see, even if I did have something legitimate to say relating to something interesting like enterprise architecture, netbeans, virtualisation or solaris, I bet frank zappa or david bowie stuck on my face would still tip the balance...
Posted by Tim on February 17, 2008 at 08:26 PM GMT #
Sadly it looks as though the only vinyl I still own is a lone copy of the 'Hot Thing' EP by 'Gaye Bykers on Acid', which I kept after I let the rest of the vinyl get replaced by CD's (because it was never available in a digitised form and it contains the wonderful 'Rad Dude').
Ah the march of progress...
Nowadays, thankfully, 'Rad Dude' is available as an MP3 from the GBOA website, as is most of the bands output:
http://www.gayebykersonacid.com/
So for me to join in the 'sleeveface' action I'm going to have to mess around with perspective, or do the honorable thing - and photoshop it.
Posted by Wayne Horkan on February 18, 2008 at 02:10 AM GMT #
Posted by Wayne Horkan's weblog: eclectic on March 01, 2008 at 12:33 AM GMT #