Foreign visitors ...

It is interesting, when you look at the reason why I started this blog page in the first place, to note that the visitors I intended this for are pretty sparse.

I began writing for C while he was away (he hasn't visited this page in over a year, but you could argue that he has my news every day now so why would he need to), then when I moved away from home my focus shifted more towards the people I was leaving behind. I thought this might be a handy way for providing people with updates on my life. However, as we speak, my log doesn't display a single visit from back home. Among the last hundred visits, 56 have been from the United States, 10 from Canada, 4 from the U.K, 3 from Israel, 2 from India and the rest from countries as disparate as Togo (Africa), Argentina, Netherlands, Ireland, Russia, China, Kuwait, Turkey, Thailand, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan and Mexico.

The sad part is that most people wander sporadically onto this page, looking for something different probably than they're ever gonna find. As an example, here is a list of last week's Google searches that led people to my page:

• 2006 year to date rainfall, joshua tree
  
• alabama hills
  
• beach party stuff
  
• california written drivers test in russian
  
• california-nevada-arizona
  
• caseinate artificial
  
• climb in the desert
  
• drinking toasts to girls
  
• far away is here
  
• hippie sedona campgrounds
  
• hottest temperature ever recorded in the world
  
• how to pronounce the french word tartelettes
  
• human anatomy english to arabic prononciation free
  
• idyllwild california wine tasting
  
• importance of recommendation of last postdoc boss in getting a new postdoc in usa
  
• information on lovebird in arabic language
  
• journal of fish bread crumb
  
• life of pi who i was family oriented
  
• long life coffee cream
  
• mammoth mountains mountain deaths, 2006
  
• naked beach holidays
  
• nevada driver's licence written test
  
• pros and cons of living in arizona
  
• receipts leg of lamb
  
• salton sea beach nudist
  
• sedona airballoons
  
• solutions of math olympiad elementary school
  
• toasts to drinking
  
• top rope climbs zion national park
  
• topless holidays
  
• tuolomne meadows campground
  
• vengerov february 2006
  
• 2006 arab fisherman guestbook
  
• what do the french mostly eat
  
• which stops does reds meadow shuttle stop in mammoth resorts area

You will remark that I don't have a lot of authority on any of these, and my page is unlikely to contain much relevant information, unless it be on the Tuolomne Meadows campgrounds that I recently visited ...

So, my conclusion is that even with the sophisticated internet search machines we have now, a good many searches still turn up with just crap.

And to those involved I heartily apologize for the fact that I have so little information to offer on the subject of nudist beach holidays (and now I'm gonna get even more hits, sigh!), driver's tests, arabic pronounciation and the importance of recommendation of last postdoc boss in getting a new postdoc in usa ...