"The last index of your web site (...) completed two seconds ago. It took four minutes to crawl 285 pages and index 285 pages containing 637,804 words for a total of 13,457,492 bytes. 32,459 word endings, 0 synonyms, 21,185 sound-alike words, and 15 excluded words were included in the index."
So, the Atomz machinery told me this morning after I logged in and updated this place's search engine, 'taliesin's log' now runs to 285 pages and 637,804 words, with astonishingly few "dead links" (just a small handful).
The first word written here was "Solaris".
Why do I bore the Faithful 5 ¾ with such facts and statistics?
Because, two days late -- which is just what I did with my poor Mum last week, after leaving myself a reminder of the wrong date -- I've remembered a birthday.
This experiment began, with a very different format, on February 24, 2003, has since been through three radical overhauls of the layout and has seen its subject matter take many unplanned directions.
Heartfelt thanks to everybody who has helped me along with ideas and insults, protests and plaudits, contributions and corrections, blog art and brickbats. There have been so many of you, on every continent except Antarctica.
I shan't be taking a crate of champagne into the Factory. Not after what Sam did to my head at the Canteen, when instead of the drop or three just for taste I expect with my occasional Coupe Pernety, he almost drowned yesterday's variant on this delicious dessert in vodka.
Except in cough mixture, virtually no alcohol has passed my lips since August 1997, so the effect of Sam's stunt was swift and a shock to my system.
But there'll be fine chocolate on the house for all comers if I make it quickly to Monoprix before diving into the Métro.
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