A Momentous Milestone

My 100th blog post.  Few thought we would every see this day.  Mostly because no one has actually spent anytime thinking about this blog, let alone how long it might continue on in abject anonymity.  But here we are so let's take the time to reflect on a few things.  This blog got its start on June 27, 2007 so it is taken me 4 and a half years to reach the century mark, a pace that would put a tortoise to sleep.  Good thing, my livelihood isn't determined by my creative word per decade output or I would have starved long ago.  In that time, the Idle Worship blog has been visited 3,498 times.  Of course the majority of those visits have likely either been me looking at my own words or my sister (a real live, documented reader of the blog that is willing to openly admit it).  But there are those unlucky few that I have been tricked into clicking through to the blog by some keyword that I typed and that Google zeroed in on.  Residents of 95 different countries have stared confused at their web browser and pondered why they were looking at the Idle Worship blog (a shout out to my Moldovian visitor).  I am surprisingly popular in Germany.  And on the home front, I have enjoyed hits from 48 states and D.C. (If anyone out there knows someone who lives in Alaska or Montana, please ask them to visit.  I want to collect them all).  What is driving this thundering herd of wandering eyes your not asking?  Well, as I mentioned before, it is actually may favorite part of doing the blog and it has nothing to do with what I write.  It is my sponsors.  224 visitors came from searches for Goliath National Bank.  Number 2 on the search engine referrals, Massive Dynamic.  Many times during this historic run of blog posts I thought I might run out of sponsors but without failure another company stepped up and laid down the Monopoly money to keep the words flowing.  So, in honor of the sponsors that have been so generous to this little person, I am going to use this post to do a complete review of all of our benefactors up to this point.  But before we get to that please watch this video about what you can do to help support your favorite corporation from those that would seek to hurt them.

This blog post is sponsored by All of These Great Companies.