My Feedburner stats say there’s over 70 people or things reading what I have to say. Kinda crazy.
I want to give a special shout out to readers from David Bau’s blog. Welcome! *little bow*
David works for Google and I met him on a airplane a last year or the year before. It’s funny how a single encounter can change your life. I was reading a Java programming book, trying to understand what I was learning in class and really get my head around some code examples. David strikes up a conversation about programming with me, but just because someone is in a Google t-shirt, it doesn’t mean they work there. Well, in this case, it turns out that they do.
David was really encouraging about learning to code. If you read his blog, you’ll see that even his kid is learning to program. It’s a cute story. I really got inspired after our conversation because David builds things that make life better online. It’s small things that can be amazing things and he showed me that during our chat.
Shortly thereafter, I quit my hateful job doing tech support and found a more lucrative job programming. It’s probably not directly related to meeting David, but it was important that even a perfect stranger thought I could do this programming thing and that I come off as being smart and interesting in less than 10 minutes of talking.
As far as my Java skills go, I’m still not passing the J2EE exam anytime soon, but I can read a stack trace enough to troubleshoot. I never did finish my Towers of Hanoi program, but maybe I’ll make that my summer project.
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Wow, go you! My Feedburner numbers stink. Not sure why. It doesn’t bother me too much because I never read the feeds I’m subscribed to. I just tend to discover good articles thru pfblogs.org and I visit my favorite blogs regularly even tho I pretty much ignore their feeds.
I actually don’t subscribe to feeds either. I find all my good reposts though PFBlogs.org.
I seem to have been picked up by the BlogHer crowd and I think that’s probably where a lot of the subscribers come from. Other than that, they’re mostly just bots.