Month: April 2006 (Page 2 of 2)

Ah to find one’s self rid of the working week stress! Ah to find the pile of work waiting to be done in the weekend!

To Do List:

1. Update thebignote.com
2. Do some commissioned illustration work for these guys
3. Produce/illustrate More Weirdo Cards
4. Go out ‘n buy plants ‘n things for the garden — it’s spring time!
5. Fight Spam At Zappa Wiki Jawaka
6. Pay some bills
7. Produce/illustrate More Weirdo Cards

Meet you on the other end.

This site gets about 20 unique visitors a day, many of them via Google Image Search, looking for this (hello, “nude+guy” googlers!). Peanuts of course, but I don’t mind as I don’t do anything to promote it in any way. I actually find this absence of “must update, must attract new readers!” pressure quite pleasing, and hardly ever Check My Statsâ„¢.

One lazy Saturday in September last year however, right after I had posted Hairweave Biff, I did have a look at who was visiting. Surprise: SiteMeter tells me some 200 people have visited — and it’s only 12:30 pm. Weird. Click on referers. Jaw drops.

Derek Powazek had linked to Moonbug. Derek “Fray” Powazek, a widely read blogger working at Technorati, married to another widely read blogger — had linked to Moonbug. My Frank & Debby entry to be exact.

For the next couple of days, traffic went through the roof. Suddenly, figuring out what to post next became of such quintessential importance that I froze and didn’t post anything. For a week. And when I finally did post something, I had to go and share this wonderful demonstration of dull mediocrity with the world. Brilliant timing indeed. Mister Cool, oh yeah.

So now we’re back to 20 unique visitors a day, the warm coziness of internet obscurity, and an audience that consists largely of people desperate to see a drawing of a naked man (hello, “nude+guy” googlers!).

Unless of course, Mr. Powazek decides to link me up again.
Hey: it could happen to you!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to Check My Statsâ„¢.