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0111100100000010011010110010100100001″That’s my blog’s way of saying “Happy Birthday to Me!” in binary code (hey, I’m not the nerd; my blog is). That’s right, today my blog is one year old! And, by complete coincidence, this is also my 300th post. It has been a great year, and I’m very happy that I decided to create PBriscoe.com. According to my very first post, I started this blog to “keep friends and family updated with what’s going on in my life. I’m also doing this so I can look back in the future and see what I was writing about and what my interests were in the past.”

At first, I was really focused on getting content up here and blogging about almost anything. Increasingly, I’ve been leaning towards a more “quality, rather than quantity” approach. This blog has become a place for my ideas and interpretations, a place where I can make people aware of the things I find interesting and have them share their own views with me. I like to challenge myself and others by talking about controversial topics, and topics that people are usually uncomfortable talking about. This is a reflection of the value I place on open-mindedness and debate.

Of course, it can’t always be formal and serious so I lighten it up with posts of photography, the Friday Footprint, general happenings around the world, HowTos, and other miscellaneous topics. From learning how to make soap to finding out ways to save energy and money, this blog has offered a lot of interesting tips that I’ve gathered either from my own experience or around the internet.

As my blog enters its second year on the world wide web, I hope to continue my writing and improve upon my technique. Thanks to everyone who takes the time to read what I have to say and I’ll keep trying my best to make that time worth while :).

Blog Statistics :

• There are currently 300 posts and 508 comments, contained within 25 categories and 75 tags.
• Akismet has protected this site from 11,202 spam comments.
• 51 sites on the internet link to this blog.
• On April 14, 2007, my post on the Dolphin Slaughter was featured as a popular page on Digg.com which drew more than 750 people and over 5,000 page views to my site, crashing it for a good hour or so (stats weren’t collected during this time, so real numbers are probably higher).
• In January of 2007 (first full month of blogging) this site averaged 39.68 visits per day and had a total of 1230 visits. Last month, it averaged 113.90 visits per day and had a total of 3417.

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