Stats, Facts & Figures

Love a good stat. Or a fact. Anything like that really. The ability to boil something down to a “did you know?” Here are some statistical figures and stuff about this blog.

Number of posts (including this one):- 427
Number of posts if you include the previous MySpace blog*:- 644

Total number of words:- 170,249
Total number of words including previous blog:- 264,970
Number of words written per active year**:- 37,853
Overall total is the approximate same length as:- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke

On This Day
Date of first MySpace blog:- December 7, 2005
Things that happened on this day in history:- Nothing else of import really

Date of this blog starting:- August 25, 2008
Things that happened on this day in history:- Not a lot then either (turns out most of history is just a bit boring)

Frequently used words
Time - 920
Film - 702
Good - 507

Least used words
Penchant
Scarce (very apt)
Appraisal
Merriment
Garfunkel

Number of blog posts composed of thin ideas stretched out probably beyond their natural breaking point:- 100%



*Hey, anyone remember MySpace? No? No? It was all the rage a decade and a half ago, I tell you. Apparently it’s still there like some sort of creepy internet graveyard. Where social media goes to die.

** Well, there was a six year gap with nothing, I'm not including that, drags the average right down.