Dear all,
in August 2007 I started this blog with the classic Hello World post. Today, in April 2010, what started as a simple just-for-fun experiment has become an active part of my life and curriculum. This post marks my 100th post, with an average of slightly more than 3 posts per month.
During this time, the blog went from no readers and hits to almost 7000 visits per month, and the trend is growing
ForTheScience visits/month trend
Similar case with the feeds: there are 23 RSS readers connected to the updates. These are small, big numbers: the critical fact is that I am doing something that people use and enjoy.
I want to thank every person interested in what I write. I’m not a professional writer, nor I wanted to create a blog to act as a journalist, and this stance will stay. I just wanted, and want for the future, to keep my mind open, read things, poke others with some interesting scientific facts and findings, provide scientific programming hints for issues I discover and solve. When this happens, I will post it here.
What is coming up now at this important milestone can be summarized with the following points:
- I will try hard, harder, and even more harder to get a ticket to The Amazing Meeting 2010 in London, and provide full coverage of the events as I did last year. The people I met at TAMLondon 2009 were incredible and enjoyable. The show was exhilarating and witty. I will get on board again this year if I win the hunt for tickets.
- I will complete the series of the “eight molecules”: after Ether, Penicillin, Cisplatin and Urea, we are halfway through. More interesting molecules are coming, stay tuned.
- I will keep a random post frequency, although I will try to normalize at around a post every 15 days.
- Expect more videos and pics. I officially started walking around with my camera all the time.
Again, thank you all for reading.