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Lisp in Small Pieces beats Harry Potter in bestseller list got dugg. My server survived, so this ain’t a post-mortem: it’s the obligatory “I got dugg” gloat-post. It’s my first time; sue me.

First off, welcome to all of you that subscribed to this blog. I promise never to post about my breakfast or any cat pictures. I will post about my work, why online dating sucks, the Montreal tech scene, and climate and environment-related stories.

Besides the sheer numbers, the main surprise was that people came to my blog from 104 countries. That’s more countries than I can name.

In the first hour the story became popular, 4,000 visitors came by - more than I got in the entire last year. 10k visits the first day, 3k the second; it’s now petering out. As far as I know the page stayed responsive, in no small part because of wp-cache.

Here are a few more data-points for the curious:

Browser | Visits | % visits
Firefox | 9,599 | 70.71%
Internet Explorer | 2,215 | 16.32%
Safari | 1,029 | 7.58%
Opera | 409 | 3.01%
Mozilla | 161 | 1.19%

In the first day: 10k visits, 500 diggs, 74 feed subscribers. Crazy.