{"id":678,"date":"2007-05-07T12:11:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T19:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/05\/07\/milestones-of-sorts\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T16:13:53","slug":"milestones-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/milestones-of-sorts\/","title":{"rendered":"milestones (of sorts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>personal achievements, however they are measured, are a simple way to remind oneself to keep going. my &#8216;digital achievements&#8217; are exactly that &#8211; is it worth it? do i keep going? are my energies being exhausted without return? it&#8217;s not a financial concern &#8211; no matter what, I&#8217;ll keep pouring and pouring financial resources into these arenas, circles, networks. but how to measure or mark these moments? a few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/01\/19\/now-with-flickr\/\">my Flickr account<\/a>, less than 4 months old, hit 600 photos today, after the uploading of images from the final days of installation and the opening for the Albatross project by <a href=\"http:\/\/fluxfactory.org\/\">Flux Factory<\/a> artists. this is an average of 5 images\/day; I want this to double over the next 4 months.<\/li>\n<li>sometime last week I&#8217;ve had my first laptop for a full year. I acquired a MSI MS-1022 after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notebookreview.com\/default.asp?newsID=2771\">an excellent review of the machine over on notebookreview<\/a> (and unlike most Mac users, I&#8217;ve never dropped my laptop! nor tripped over the power cable! LOL!) This machine has changed the way I think about computing, and greatly helped me with blogging among other new interventions.<\/li>\n<li>since moving to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediatemple.net\/\">my new webhost<\/a>, my blog transfer stats have jumped from under 1Gig the first month (last august) to an astounding 11Gigs last month (and up from 7.7Gigs the month before, I might add!)<\/li>\n<li>my first month on the new host saw an average of just over 100 sessions\/day; now I&#8217;m up above 500. Something is working.<\/li>\n<li>my Technorati listing has nearly dipped below 300,000, a personal best. Until this month I was hovering around 500,000.<\/li>\n<li>18 June next month will mark my one-year anniversary of blogging. I can&#8217;t wait for this day. I really want to hit 365 posts in one year, but I&#8217;m a good 120 posts off-mark. However, I&#8217;m now only working part-time, and have more time to post new content, so it&#8217;s going to become a personal challenge to see if I can inundate the blog with this much content! 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