Hello obsessives!

I notice from my WordPress stats that since I wrote about the West Wing my hits have rocketed past all previous records in the space of 48 hours, all of them from livejournal posts sharing any new items of fan fiction, YouTube clip videos, and blog discussions, etc, that have appeared each week on that theme. Now, obviously I am about to attract another deluge of these people by tagging this post with the name, so I just thought I should say:

It’s just a TV show. For your own good, just go outside for a while.

The wonders of the search engine stats

One of the perks of using WordPress is that you get to see the words and phrases that people put into a search engine that then led them to your blog. As a little extra entry, here are some interesting ones that led to the CDB Desk:

“what does look like a prat mean” ~ I found this one rather charming. The entry concerning Jeremy Clarkson and Britney Spears came up on the first page of Google results.

“profound msn names”, “horrible msn screen names”, “msn screen names that say I like you alot!” ~ having tried all of these phrases it became apparent that there’s apparently a whole load of sites devoted to supplying people’s MSN names for them. For crying out loud – can nobody put something sensible that they thought up themselves? This really stunned me. It detracts from my already-limited faith in the human race. It clearly has something to do with the terrible naming trends I covered in my first entry.

But wait, there’s more! “impressive msn name” was a personal favourite of mine. It’s just somebody asking to be unimpressive.

“what your msn name says about you” ~ I’m guessing that in this particular searcher’s case it’s “I am a prat”.

And that was followed by a whole load of stuff about Hugh Laurie. But that’s far less funny.