There is a lot of codework to do, and I’m not capable of implementing everything that needs to happen. I have a hard time to take my website seriously, maybe because of the name and/or my content. I feel I’ve digressed, in certain ways, from some of my old posts. I do know that I enjoy writing, and that it’s possible I’ll go back into it as much as I have in the past. I actually generated a decent amount of traffic on this site, and it’s something to be proud of. It is, after all, my first website, one for which I did a lot of work by hand.

We’ll see how things go with my schedule once I start working. I do know one thing for certain: this is not my last post. I’ll want to end it with a bang, probably along the lines of a new recipe I tried out. =)

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Cheers.

Oh, and I’m going to the Dominican Republic tomorrow. I intend to continue my internet hiatus until that week is over.

PS: A collective “Fuck you” to: CNN, Karl Rove & Rudy Guliani, Fox News, Stephen Harper and the city of Vancouver

Last semester of school has begun. I’m four months from life behind a desk. I guess I should look forward to it eh.

Since it’s implementation a few months ago, my spam filter has 3385 bad comments. Not too bad, eh? I just want to give credit to tan tan noodles for writing the code.

It can be anything. Would you like me to write a post about the art of making balloon animals? How about rubber boots, or the history of toilet paper? It can be something technical too; if you’re an arts major, I will do my best to analyse any piece you would like.

Go on, help me learn something I have no idea about. You can either tell me via a comment, Facebook, or an email to andrew(at)andrewshouts.com.

I analyse this site’s hits regularly. In May I had an average of 25 different people hitting per day, June saw an increase to 35 people per day, and this month has an average of 40 different people per day checking out my site per. In the past three months alone, I have had 2,679 visits, and over 6,000 page views (accounting for the same people who return more than once per day). Traffic is mostly from Canada.

For a personal side-project, a place where I can just vent and put my thoughts down somewhere else, it’s nice to hear the meaningful feedback like I heard at the pub that night. I enjoy writing, but what I enjoy more is having people challenge my ideas, hopefully so that I may always make my opinions more founded. I want people to call bull on me more often; but alas, that’s not so easy to get people to do.

Anyway, I really appreciate it when people give feedback. Not nearly as much because it slightly boosts my ego (it doesn’t really anymore, I’ll still have this site even if nobody even read it), but hearing that they have new interests or have had discussions because of something they read on Andrewshouts.com, is the metaphorical cherry on my sundae.

In the meantime, check out how “hope and change” has not yet come to America, as a critic’s metaphorical mic is cut.

“AREA NEWSPAPER HATES WORLD, LIFE, YOU” – If you don’t know where this is probably from, you might need to read this.

Andrewshouts.com is one of my favorite pastimes. It’s a personal project gone all too well, but it seems as though I will have less time to pass in the first place. We’ll see.

I know my posts can be loaded with typos. That’s a symptom of not being able to type and look at my monitor at the same time. However, when my website’s contest banner on the very top of the page is missing a word, you have to tell me! It took an 8 hour shift on a Sunday night for me to see the damned mistake, three days later.

Help me not look like a tool – throw me a frickin’ bone here. Thank you.

Once I get the logistics down, I’ll let you know more about the AndrewShouts Mindblowing Contest.