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About Me: I used to believe that evolution was reasonable, that homosexuality was genetic, and that people became Christians because they couldn't deal with the 'reality' that this life was all there was. I used to believe, that if there was a heaven - I could get there by being good - and I used to think I was more or less a good person. I was wrong on all counts. One day I finally had my eyes opened and I saw that I was not going to go to heaven, but that I was certainly going to suffer the wrath of God for all my sin. I saw myself as a treasonous rebel at heart - I hated God for creating me just to send me to Hell - and I was wretched beyond my own comprehension. Into this spiritual vacuum Jesus Christ came and he opened my understanding - delivering me from God's wrath into God's grace. I was "saved" as an adult, and now my life is hid in Christ. I am by no means sinless, but by God's grace I am a repenting believer - a born again Christian.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Lowly Insect!

I have evolved on the TTLB eco system (see the lower right column).

Not that I don't like being "a" insignificant microbe - that was fun for a time, but I have outgrown er,... evolved into something more significant.

I would like to thank all you crazy bloggers who dared to link to my blog (sniff... I promised myself I wouldn't cry). Without you none of this would have happened.
I am not sure how the TTLB system works - it seems that once a week or so they run some batch process that looks to see how many people were linked to your blog at some point in time. Clearly it is not a "real time" system - but for the money I am paying (nothing) I can't complain.

It was a jump of perhaps 12,000. I was previous ranked at around the 37,000th most popular website they monitor, but now I am up to somewhere around the 25,000th most popular blog. That huge jump from zero links to one known link is the first kick at the cat. I plan to move up to at least 10,000th place! ;-)

posted by Daniel @ 3:12 PM

2 Comments:

At 2:07 PM, September 14, 2005, Brad Williams said…

Daniel,

I am paying far too much attention to this ecosystem thing myself. Oddly, after the hurricane, I fell 6,000 places. Since then, my average daily traffic has not been updated. I want to write them and say, "I am trying to evolve here, people! What's the deal? Update me so I can be a Crawly Ampibian again!" But as you said, I get what I pay for, right?
At 4:43 PM, September 14, 2005, Daniel said…

Amen - but not like the enthusiastic loud AMEN, more of a softer amen - not a whisper mind you, but one of those conversational amens - the kind that say, "yes, I agree with you wholeheartedly, but not in any hysterical or overly froward way." :)