The content on this site dates to 2003, since then there have been 361 posts (including essays); these posts contain 227,626 words (for an average of 630.5 words per post), that’s 1,467,440 keystrokes. Across all posts, each sentence (11,754 of them) has an average of 19.4 words. If you read every post on this site, it would take you approximately 1,138 minutes, though they took about 45,525 minutes to write.
The number of words per post has changed over the years, as you can see below:
- 2000s: 240 words per post
- 2010s: 770 words per post
- 2020s: 1,687 words per post
These posts also contain 131 internal links and 1,443 external links.
Since I started posting my photography on this site, I’ve added 122 photos; seeing as I don’t perform any post-processing on my photos, the time invested in each isn’t that bad. Overall, I’ve spent about 2,440 minutes working on these photos and getting them posted.
I’ve also started quite recently posting short stories. So far I’ve posted 9, containing 20,237 words; they can be read in 101 minutes, though took 6,746 minutes to write.
One this site, I’ve used 19,348 unique words, with an average word length of 13.6 characters (or 5.2 characters when weighted by frequency). Obviously, I’ve used some of these more than others. Here you can see the words I use most often, after removing short, common, & generic terms.
Top 100 words: people • security • information • system • simple • possible • better • issues • server • software • developers • important • understand • different • application • impact • change • business • process • password • access • making • working • version • available • company • public • support • systems • person • secure • windows • instead • useful • service • provide • development • future • project • update • control • attack • writing • research • create • device • released • question • attacks • ensure • common • developer • problem • companies • option • microsoft • content • release • started • quickly • believe • function • changes • private • within • attacker • matter • understanding • address • encryption • effort • details • complex • critical • contract • experience • network • course • applications • knowledge • account • source • result • thanks • simply • building • government • example • features • community • fairly • industry • easily • encrypted • ability • feature • involved • created • written • running
Overall, across all content on this site:
- I’ve written 492 posts across all content types.
- I’ve written 249,315 words on this site. That’s 1,589,646 keystrokes, or roughly 3.12 full-size novels.
- I’ve spent about 52,561 minutes writing. That’s 876.0 hours, or 36.5 days of continuous writing.
- I’ve spent about 55,001 minutes creating content for this site.
- If you were to read everything on this site, it would take you about 1,247 minutes.
- Over the years, I’ve spent about 39,592 minutes developing this site (across the many different versions and designs that have existed). That’s 660 hours of development over the last 22.00 years.
- Between writing, photography, and development & design, I’ve spent about 94,593 minutes bringing this site to you. That’s 1,577 hours, or 66 days.
For those that have followed me across all these years, through the evolution of this site, and the creation of all this content, thank you for your interest, feedback, and inspiration.