Another minor milestone
Regular readers will recall that the database for this site crashed bigtime in the first week of September 2006, and while no posts were lost, I chose to restart the database at square one rather than reimport everything into what appeared to be a fairly rickety structure.
We’re coming up on two years on the new DB, and this post from last night marks the 4000th post therein.
I will, you may be certain, start to get antsy around the 7200th post, the point where the old DB failed. (I did add one post to the old archives, to point to the new address for the feed; inasmuch as I changed all the archive addresses to avoid overwriting anything, the feed had to move.)
One number that always turns up is 2.5; for the longest time, I’ve averaged 2.5 comments per post. And sure enough, some time today or tomorrow you’ll see the 10,000th approved comment since the database restart. (Spams and such have run the total received up to 13,700 or so, but they’ve been ruthlessly excised.)
