Tag: announcement

missing new posts

I hope no one has been feeling too big a void since there have been no new posts here for the past week.  I figured there’d be more outcry, but I suppose everyone just held it in.  🙂

I have lots of perfectly valid excuses, not least of which was devoting several full days to recording the next hit record*.  Yeah, “work” got in the way.  Someone has to do it.  🙂

I could give even more great excuses, but the one above is sufficient for you.  And instead of continuing this rambling, I’ll just spend the next few minutes making a real post…

* Hit record not guaranteed.

our 5 year anniversary

It has been five years since we started Buffet o’ Blog, and we’ve went from obscure to world-renown.  If you think about it, 5 years in Internet years is a long time.  To celebrate, we wish we could offer everyone a free bacon-themed meal, but that’s simply not possible.  See, for the Buffet o’ Blog restaurant (tentative name), we’re waiting on just one more investor… specifically, someone with about a million dollars to invest in our dream, and then it would become a reality and be perhaps [dramatic pause] the greatest restaurant of all-time! [Imagine a loud clasp of thunder right there.]   So if you’re that investor with money burning in your pockets, have your people contact my people.

So since there’s no big worldwide party possible at this time, the staff met at a local BBQ place for lunch, then there were some “fireworks” afterward.  It was a good time.   For those who couldn’t make it, you should go eat a pizza in our honor.  Or better yet, invite us along, too!

Perhaps there will be some new features added in the next week or two in honor of our anniversary.  So stay tuned!  In the meantime, here’s some stats summing up what we’ve done so far (for the nerdy types — you know who you are).

Posts: 966
Comments: 5,052
Spam Comments Automatically Deleted: 88,125
Daily traffic: 565 pageviews (average for 2011 so far)
Total pageviews: 605,958 hits

Those last two boggle my mind, that over 500 people are reading my ramblings every day and that this blog has been viewed over half a million times in just 5 years!  Out of that many people, surely at least one or two think I’m actually funny!  🙂

And last but not least, I wanna send a big shout-out to all the regular readers and subscribers here.  I’m amazed that people actually come back!  🙂  It’s only gonna get more awesome — and I don’t even need a crystal ball to see that.  I’ll keep on writing because I am too legit… too legit to quit!  (Yeah, that’s kinda lame — please don’t unsubscribe!)  There’s some cool stuff already in the pipeline… some exclusive content you won’t find anywhere else.

Peace out… adios… buenos nachos…

new ways to share posts you like

The Buffet o’ Blog Important* Administrator has now enabled some sharing tools for each post.  This is handy for when you read a funny post and would like to share it with your friends.  When you’re on the page for a particular post (i.e., not the home page), there’s a Share button below the post, and clicking on it will show options for sharing, such as e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and a few others.   So now it’s easy to share a post with your friends.  And we would appreciate that.   Maybe they could use a little more laughter in their life, and perhaps this site could help them with that.  Think of it this way — a few clicks of the mouse (and perhaps a login if necessary) and you could help make the world a better place.  How easy is that?

* Of course I’m important, but since everyone trumpets their importance (like the Important Doctor, Important Evil Genius, Important Psychologist, Important Democrat, etc.), I figured I’d add that to my title.  Why not?

If any of you have any issues with this post, feel free to skip reading the rest of it.  🙂

new features at Buffet o’ Blog

Today I’m going to tell you about some of the recent upgrades here at Buffet o’ Blog.

You may have noticed the new check-box next to where you leave your comments.   If you check it and leave a comment, you will receive new comments on that post via e-mail.  That way, if there’s a post you want to follow but don’t want to check back at the blog all the time to see if anyone has written on it, you just check the box and you’ll get an e-mail when someone writes a new comment.

If you are a regular reader here (or want to be) and you want to receive all the comments in your feed reader or by e-mail, we now have that option.  With the e-mail options you will receive one e-mail per day containing all the comments on the blog from the past 24 hours.  If there were no new comments, there is no e-mail.  The instructions for subscribing to this is explained in detail on the new “Subscribe” page.

And of course you can receive the new posts via e-mail or in a feed reader.  I’ve mentioned that before.  Those instructions are also on the “Subscribe” page.