Sometime today (Saturday), if trends hold, ricoblog will receive its 10,000th vistor.

The sitemeter stats indicate each visitor hits an average of 1.9 pages, so that means ricoblog has served up close to 20,000 pages since it went live in mid-August 2004.

Here's the first non-test post, which was posted on Friday, August 13 2004.

Thanks to all who visit regularly, those who read via aggregator, and to those who happen to find things via search engines (typically Google).

And especially thanks to those who link to ricoblog and mention it on their own blogs. Y'all are awesome.

Here's hoping for another 10,000!

Update: We're over the mark. At 1:28 AM PDT (Sunday morning) someone, most likely from Sweden, accessed ricoblog via google while searching for "greek language structure programming computer". Now that's a google hit I'm proud of. Anyway, here's the current view of ricoblog hit history via sitemeter: