Celebrating a birthday in style

Well, folks, it's time to celebrate a very important birthday. No, not my birthday--that was last week, and so far I'm taking my 30s in stride. You see, today, we celebrate the first birthday of The Crimson Cavalier. Yes, one year ago we started this thing with one innocent post, and now look what we've created.

We've had nearly 500 posts here (468 to be exact), we've had about 16,000 total pageviews, and somehow we're all still standing. My most commonly viewed post (by far) is this one on the unintended consequences of globalization, a topic I've tackled often here. My most commonly considered topics (based on the tags I place on them)? Sports, politics, finance, humor, and debt, in that order. In other words, all over the place.

Hey, speaking of all over the place, let's do a word cloud, because why not?

I hope you've all enjoyed the first year of business here at the Crimson Cavalier. Here's hoping it's just the first of many.

Celebrating 100 posts in style...

This is my 100th post on this blog, since I started it two months ago. The previous 99 posts total over 42,000 words. That's a lot. I have too much time on my hands.

At any rate, just for kicks, I went to Wordle and ran through the text of all my previous posts to create a word cloud. Apparently I like to talk about the market, the government, and China. And debt. Good talk, thanks for reading.