199 Posts on the Wall...

Real life has been keeping me busy. This is the 199th post on this blog. This thing started as a sideline of a half-baked (and half-executed) effort to cash in on the frustrations of the election of 2004. But now it is just about stuff that interests me. Somehow or other though it seems to interest about 150 other people a day, which is pretty darn good by Iowa blogger standards, but is absolutely nothing by the larger Internet blog standards.

By comparison, BoingBoing, the most popular blog according to Technorati receives more than 300,000 hits per day. That is more than the daily paid circulation of the New York Times print edition.

Anyway, welcome to those of you who have started coming here recently. To my loyal readers in Brazil and Germany, who are you? Everyone feel free to leave posts in the comments.

So, while real-life keeps me busy, why not check out a couple of these posts from the good-old-days.

• Other Than That Mrs. Lincoln -- The No. 1, linked-to post on this blog. About my ill-fated trip to the Chicago Fire's Stadium Opener. Contains some gory photos.


• Can't Leave You Kids Along For A Minute -- Arriving home from vacation last summer to find a new war going on. 4th Generation War Primer


• If George Ryan Doesn't Rot in Jail, He Will Surely Burn in Hell -- The very personal reasons for my fixation with ex-Illinois Governor George Ryan.


• New Orleans Is Uninsurable, Part 2 -- Post on global warming and implications for the insurance industry. I got a lot of heat about this post from people in the Democratic Party. I still stand by it 100%.


• Designing The Future -- The first 'real' post on the blog, about the Viridian Design movment and what it will take to build a sustainable future that is actually worth living in.

I have to go be billable and take care of family health issues. Back soon.