Hey, lookat that! I mean, my sitemeter, over on the right hand menu. I had my 3,000,000th customer to the blog today.
So lessee:
March 22, 2006: 500,000
January 29, 2007: 2,000,000
June 16, 2007: 3,000,000
Cool. Soon I will rule the world! I’d better take notes on what I want to change…
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June 16th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Is there any truth to the rumor that your plans for global domination include appearing on every single podcast in existence?
June 16th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Woo!
June 16th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
If BadAstronomy traded on the New York Stock Exchange, I would have bought shares just after the publication of the first book and then more after the addition of the blog.
What is the word count on the draft of your second book?
June 16th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
If you do achieve global domination, could you start out with upping the pressure of my shower?
I do believe that it is one of the basic Human Rights: “the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, equality before the law, and a shower with a decent pressure”.
June 17th, 2007 at 12:56 am
I will vote for you! BA for President
(oh, well, President of the US maybe, but then I can’t vote for you, sry, I’m writing from Germany, but I would vote for you if I could 
).
But I wish good luck for domination
June 17th, 2007 at 1:07 am
Global Domination… Sounds kinky, I’m in.
Kisses!
JanieBelle
June 17th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Global domination ey. Ok, start by taking a deep breath. You don’t want your nerves to get the best of you and ending up doing something impulsive, like blowing up the planet.
Now, go to the public library and pick up a book titled “The Prince” by Machiavelli. Make a cup of tea and read it in peace. You might find it a bit old and stuffy, but as you will notice, it deals effectively with most things that might take up your precious time as the first global emperor. Yes, even human rights! If I remember correctly, he deals with human rights in a very effective way.
Best of wishes with ruling the globe!
-Chris aka Skepticnurse
June 17th, 2007 at 3:06 am
GLOBAL Domination? Gee, BA.. sounds like Dr. Evil asking for…..
a MILLION dollars!
Think really big, and all I ask is the Moon…
nice place to visit, but no atmosphere.
J/P=?
June 17th, 2007 at 3:49 am
Time to get out the “Evil Overlord” list.
As World Leader, you could…
1. Ban all outdoor lighting.
2. Take all the money from lawyers, politicians, other government officials, and put it into NASA.
3. Allow the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series.
4. Fire FOX execs and order years and years of Firefly episodes.
Those are just a few things for you to think of.
Oh, and since I gave you these ideas, I get to hold a powerful position in your World Government, right?
June 17th, 2007 at 4:19 am
… and a cephalopod in every pool!
Well, we can dream anyway…
June 17th, 2007 at 4:37 am
I’m never reading your blog again! How dare you have 3,000,000 views?!
June 17th, 2007 at 4:47 am
Do what all Good? Evil OverLords do: Steal It!, Dogbert is a good source.
June 17th, 2007 at 5:21 am
My DH has already declared that he will eventually be The Benevolent Despot. We are happy he has decided to be benevolent, so we let him continue with his plans.
But even he has not been able to find the solution to one problem I hope you will tackle.
Could you please figure out a way to bar people who are not actually passing from riding in the passing lane?
Thanks!
Nance
June 17th, 2007 at 6:43 am
Ooooo! Let me get in on the request line here for a sec…
Could you please remove the braille from the drive-thru ATM machines? That really scares me.
Thanks in advance and Kisses,
JanieBelle
June 17th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Hmm, I’m not seeing the site meter. Perhaps it uses ActiveX or something and won’t work under Firefox. Anyhow congratulations. Soon you’ll be at MegaPi!
June 17th, 2007 at 7:42 am
3,000,000 views…Wow! Is anyone else pondering what I am pondering — how many people does that number actually represent? Judging on the number of serial commenters, I suspect that I’m not the only person who practices: read, surf away, return.
June 17th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Trebuchet,
I’m running FF, and I can see it fine. Try turning on remote images in your options (they’re off by default).
Interestingly enough though, it’s recently disappeared from my own blog, and I can’t figure out why.
June 17th, 2007 at 8:01 am
True enough, ABR.
Site meter tracks visits (as opposed to just page views). A visit goes kinda like this…
You visit BA. That’s a one. You surf five or six pages, it’s still one visit. You leave for five minutes and return and surf 4 or 5 pages. Still one visit. You leave for twenty minutes or more. You return and surf some more pages. That’s two visits.
Hope that helps.
June 17th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Oh, and P.S. for clarification.
While SiteMeter displays the number of visits, it does track page views as well, but you have to click the SiteMeter image to find the number of page views.
June 17th, 2007 at 8:23 am
“Don’t get cocky, kid.”
June 17th, 2007 at 9:14 am
I’m sure you had it a while back BA.
Am I the only one who puts tracking sites like that on the hosts file? I have most of them there.
June 17th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Hmmmm, so you’ve been visited by one percent of the US population? Sounds about right. Must be the top one percent,,,
Now all you need is to convince the remaining 99 percent to start THINKING. Then you can really rule, Dude.
Number 1 Proclamation. All religious texts should come with a disclaimer:
Caution, this book is fiction. Any resemblance to gods living or dead is strictly coincidental. The ideas contained herein do not even qualify for the term Theory.
Harry Potter has more validity,,,
Gary 7
June 17th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Hmmm, meter is now showing. Only difference is earlier I was on a very slow dial-up connection and at this moment am taking advantage of a rare opportunity to use broadband.
Anyhow, keep up the good work Phil!
June 17th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I don’t buy it. No evil Laugh. Everyone knows that world domination requires an evil laugh.
June 17th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Hey that was fun! I logged off at 3,004,212, and logged back in at 3,004,213! Who knew sitemeters could be so entertaining?
June 17th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Hey, I just found out that my country has about the same area as your state (New Zealand cf: Colorado). Surely that qualifies me as one of your Global Ministers?
June 17th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Does that include all the people reading your feeds? BA feeds to my Livejournal, so you might be getting more visitors than you think.
June 17th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
The blog gets more visitors than is registered here. There are feeds from many places, for example, and a few thousand people have signed up via email as well. If they all came here for every post, I’d see a million visits about every two months or so.
And that’s just the blog; the rest of the site is hit a lot as well. I estimate I get about 10 million visits per year, but that’s a very rough estimate. The number of unique visitors is much smaller, of course.
June 17th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
World Domination? As I calculate it, even if the 3 million views were all from different people, you still have only reached .00046% of the world’s population. But I love a person with big dreams. Go for it Phil!
June 17th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Carl
Check your maths. I think there are fewer than 600 billion people on the Earth!
June 18th, 2007 at 6:56 am
When you’re the World Dominator, can we get jobs as evil minions? And can you outlaw people who post on blogs to say they are never visiting this site again? If you don’t, I will never visit this site again.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I can’t imagine you would do a worse job than the bunch running the world now
June 20th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Bring back Stargate SG-1 please, my Lord.
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