Woke up this morning (no this is not a blues song) and as always checked the stats for all the web sites I maintain. Being the 2nd of the month I did not expect that many hits but one of the sites (http://welshicons.org.uk) was showing over 75,000 hits.

I thought something was wrong but looking at where the traffic was coming from I found the site had been mention in the Guardian News Blog (http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/01/the_right_clicks_more_than_the_left.html) and was generating traffic.

On further inspection I found that the article ended with -

"When the [English] Icons project was started some, like Harry Phibbs, suspected that it was an attempt to give England a modern makeover, in the Cool Britannia mode. The inclusion of the Notting Hill Carnival and the Empire Windrush in the two earlier lists underlined that impression. But those who use the site and provide the nomimations are having no more of that. Maybe it is only fogeyish little Englanders who care about these kinds of things. If you think so, try the Welsh version, it's more fun."

Funny that as I knew Harry years ao and had not given him a second thought until this morning.

With this in mind and also trying to explore various CMS offerings I decided to start this blog.

Enjoy!

P.S. For thoses interested I'll post the stats again tomorrow.