{"id":634,"date":"2010-12-31T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/2010-review-the-year-by-the-numbers.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:40:29","slug":"2010-review-the-year-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/2010-review-the-year-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 review: the year by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The last post of the year! It&#39;s been an excellent year all round &#8211; I thought that instead of doing a long post about goals etc, I&#39;d count down the numbers that have been my life this year. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">1413307: the number of page views on my blog, as tracked by Google, from 130 countries<\/font> <font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&#8211; WOW! <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">85421: the number of miles I flew on United <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">71000: roughly the number of words in all my blog posts this year <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">19058: the number of downloads of our MCM videos in the last 6 weeks (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/t_mcmvideos.asp\">here<\/a>)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">11800:&nbsp;my current tweet total&nbsp;(including the one about this post)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">7600: roughly the number of emails I sent <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">5901: the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.primatelabs.com\/geekbench\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">GeekBench<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> score for my new laptop <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">2255: the number of people who follow my ramblings on Twitter <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">800: roughly the number of Facebook updates (I counted backwards to July then gave up)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">270: roughly the number of Word pages taken up by all my blog posts this year <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">149: the number of nights away from home <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">125: the number of blog posts I wrote on this blog (including this post) <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">121: the number of photos I posted in travel posts <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">100: probably the number of times I said I&#39;d never get an iPhone, before buying one in January<\/font>&nbsp;:-)\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">71: roughly the most northern latitude we got to on our Russian Arctic trip <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">68: the number of days I was teaching classes or presenting at conferences <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">58: the number of pages in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/commonsqlservermyths.pdf\">free mythbusters PDF e-book<\/a><\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">54: the number of flights&nbsp;we took <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">45: the number&nbsp;of&nbsp;books I read (see <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/2010-the-year-in-books\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">this post<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">)&nbsp; <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">43: the number of new birds species I saw (taking my total to 396) <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">25: the number of dives&nbsp;we did (taking my total to 96) <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">20: the number of different hotels&nbsp;we stayed in <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">12: the number of polar bears I saw in the wild<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">10: the number of miles I walked around Beijing one day on my 3rd trip to China<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">8: the number of digits in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paulselec\/post\/kit-building-vacuum-fluorescent-display-clock.aspx\">vacuum fluorescent display clock I built<\/a><\/font><font size=\"2\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">6: the number of countries&nbsp;we visited<\/font><\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">5: the number of top-10 rated PASS sessions by SQLskills.com speakers<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">4: the number of SQL or SharePoint MCM rotations I taught for Microsoft <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">4: the number of blog posts about bald eagles <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">3: the number of big Lego models I made <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">2: the number of Fusion-io SSDs I was given to play with <\/font><\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">2: the number of new countries I visited (Cayman Islands and Russia, taking my total to 23) <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">2: the number of wonderful daughters I have<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">1: the number of new employees we hired &#8211; 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