Well, it finally happened.
Yesterday, about noon Pacific Time, we passed one million hits.
These are page views rather than unique user sessions, but still, a million page views is quite an accomplishment.
THANKS FOLKS!!! MUCH OBLIGED TO Y’ALL!!!
These are the hits since I moved to TypePad back in April 2004, so it took us about a year and four months. The blog has grown since then, though, so it may not take that long to hit two mil.
In the meantime, Party On, Dudes!!!
(Oh, and . . . Be Excellent To Each Other!)
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Well, it finally happened.
New Banner: Over One Million Sold!
Actually, should be “served” not “sold”.
Congratulations, Jimmy!
(You know, it now occurs to me that of all my mental questions about that movie, I never wondered why Joan of Arc, Napoleon, and the English princesses didn’t spend much time talking to each other. I would’ve thought they all would’ve enjoyed talking about war and leadership.)
Congrats, Jimmy!
Yay!
If my own blog continues at its current pace, I’ll have a million page views within 167 years! I think I’ve discovered the secret to getting a ton of traffic, though: get blogged by Amy Welborn, or one of the other titans of Catholic blogging.
This has definitely been on excellent adventure!
Congrats, I can only dream of one day hitting a mil! I’m happy to be among the masses!
Maureen:
Joan ‘D Arc was born in the backwater village of Domrémy, early 1400’s. Her French dialect was probably some kind of patois.
Bonaparte was born on Ajaccio, Corsica, over four hundred years later. While his family was not exaulted, he did enjoy at least the nominal status of nobility.
The Princess Babes apparantly lived sometime in England during the medieval period (500 – 1450).
For Bonaparte and Joan D’ Arc to understand each other, we might imagine the situation comparable to a native speaker of classical Latin trying to understand someone speaking in Spanish barrio slang.
Further, Maureen, the Princess Babes may have been born as early as A.D. 500, and their native language would be English.
Ergo, Joan, Bonaparte and the Princess Babes never spent much time talking to each other because they probably didn’t understand what the other person was saying.