1000th Post
This is the thousandth published post on this site. It’s not the thousandth blog entry per se, since some of the entries on this site predate the blog (some predate the site itself, and indeed my awareness of the web). Still, it’s a fairly major milestone, and (working off a suggestion of Jeff‘s) I used Wordle to create a kind of commemorative graphic.
Jeff originally suggested feeding the text of all my posts into Wordle, but that would have been three megs (almost 500,000 words) of text, so I didn’t think that was really going to work. Instead, I fed it all the post tags, resulting in this:
There you have it, a representation of what I’ve been focused on for the preceding 999 posts.
Here’s the same information in list form, all 171 different tags, doubtless including some typos, duplicates, and other things that might not belong:
- politics: 249
- writing: 247
- personal: 200
- fiction: 135
- tech: 106
- web-development: 95
- coding: 92
- science-fiction: 91
- psychology: 89
- games: 83
- novel: 78
- power: 74
- consciousness: 69
- economics: 64
- microfiction: 64
- television: 60
- books: 60
- humor: 59
- criticism: 58
- law: 56
- culture: 56
- reading: 52
- reviews: 48
- MTG: 45
- film: 43
- video: 38
- fantasy-bedtime-hour: 38
- annotated-fantasy-bedtime-hour: 37
- JavaScript: 34
- sports: 33
- software: 33
- san-francisco: 31
- philosophy: 28
- e-prime: 26
- python: 24
- Blog: 23
- religion: 23
- tennis: 22
- consumerism: 21
- design: 20
- short-fiction: 17
- travel: 16
- organization: 15
- WordPress: 15
- photos: 15
- web-surfing: 15
- fantasy: 14
- comics: 14
- media: 13
- free-speech: 13
- copyright: 13
- driving: 13
- article: 13
- language: 12
- work: 12
- textual: 11
- anarchism: 11
- music: 11
- censorship: 10
- history: 10
- creativity: 9
- education: 9
- poetry: 9
- dublin: 8
- uselection2008: 8
- racism: 8
- cycling: 8
- oldmisc: 7
- comedy: 7
- ireland: 7
- usability: 6
- database: 6
- drafting: 6
- abstract: 6
- community: 6
- pafib: 6
- happiness: 6
- essays: 6
- version-control: 6
- existentialism: 6
- mysites: 5
- human-survival: 5
- SQL: 5
- Sartre: 5
- semantic-web: 5
- flow: 5
- food: 5
- freebase: 5
- advertising: 5
- PHP: 5
- feminism: 4
- photography: 4
- Discordianism: 4
- constructed-decks: 4
- Mirrodin: 4
- war: 3
- Q3A: 3
- email: 3
- weather: 3
- phone: 3
- handedness: 3
- gender: 3
- science: 3
- transport: 3
- health: 2
- FPS: 2
- baseball: 2
- CrossFit: 2
- Nimblefish: 2
- politcs: 2
- roleplaying: 2
- sex: 2
- animation: 2
- spam: 2
- blogging: 2
- genre: 2
- identity: 2
- distraction: 2
- artificial-intelligence: 2
- theater: 2
- math: 2
- short-story: 2
- financial: 2
- audio: 2
- exercise: 2
- morning-pages: 2
- tournament-report: 2
- dreams: 2
- philosphy: 1
- prejudice: 1
- celebrity: 1
- propaganda: 1
- football: 1
- Twitter: 1
- sleep: 1
- Chandler: 1
- animals: 1
- pool: 1
- snooker: 1
- society: 1
- photocommentary: 1
- PURL: 1
- Iain-Banks: 1
- Iain-M.-Banks: 1
- winter: 1
- space: 1
- interview: 1
- typing: 1
- logic: 1
- probability: 1
- noir: 1
- berlin: 1
- Ice-Age: 1
- nationality: 1
- non-fiction: 1
- seamless: 1
- shell-scripting: 1
- anthropology: 1
- dance: 1
- irish: 1
- family: 1
- chess: 1
- property: 1
- Csikszentmihalyi: 1
- metadata: 1
- status: 1
- hardware: 1
- poe: 1
- gilman: 1
- obsolete: 1
- snippet: 1
28 May 2009 at 02:47
Some pretty esoteric tags there, Mr Tadhg. Ignoring the isolated “Ice-Age” for the moment, it is interesting to see that you have posted four times as often about “Mirroden” than “family”, leaving us in no doubt as to your priorities. Similarly “San Francisco” beats “Dublin” almost 4 to 1, and more depressingly “MTG” beats “Sex” more than 22:1. It is also interesting to see that even in your tags you distinguish between the genre and non-genre work of Mr Ian (M) Banks. Your precision in tagging would almost lead one to believe that you have rather extensive database development experience.
Congratulations on 1,000 posts, your persistence and fortitude continue to be an inspiration to the rest of us. Looking forward to the next 1,000!
01 Jun 2009 at 06:35
Well done, sir!
17 Jun 2009 at 17:22
well done on the 1000th post good sir. I reached my thousandth photo on flickr last week – nothing like as impressive. it’s an amazing body of work you’ve created here.
28 Jul 2009 at 11:48
Thanks all!
Unkie Dave: Given your own views on the gratuitous inclusion of sex in writing, surely you must approve of the fact that I write about MTG more often? Also, of course, I suppose I should have included a disclaimer along the lines of “tag frequency does not correlate to thought frequency or subjective importance”…