I woke up this morning to find lots of messages sent to my inbox from my blog, which is hosted on WordPress.com. One message said, “congratulations on being chosen for the WordPress home page!” It’s true, I had to take a screen grab for posterity. It may never happen again.
The highlighted page is, “How to draw a Kangaroo.” There has been a whopping hike in my blog stats and a significant hike in my YouTube videos being watched, which is very gratifying for a stats junkie like me!

I’ve been blogging pretty well everyday since December, in an effort to prove to my publishers that it is a waste of time. Maybe I’m wrong? My stats graph is slowly, inexorably rising. The only drag with WordPress is that you can’t put advertising on it, but then I made a choice about that at the beginning. I get a bit fed up with ads flashing all over blogs. The odd link to related material is fine, but stuff fed from a central server? you don’t know who is using you to sell their products.

Thanks for the recognition WordPress.