I can see you

Creature of innate curiosity that I am I couldn't resist installing some tracking software on this blog, courtesy of Google Analytics, so that I could learn a bit more about how many people are reading it, if any. It's been in place for about 6 months now, long enough to tell me that I have a small but loyal band of followers - thank you all for your patronage. However it's also rather fun to browse around the other features it offers.

Easily my favourite is the ability to present a map of the world over which are displayed numerous dots showing the locations from where people have read my blog. There's a random smattering of dots across pretty much the entire globe (one time traffic from Google searches for the most part) but reassuringly large clusters appear where I expect them to, with Vancouver, Minneapolis, New York and various parts of the UK all being well represented. Strangely, though, a couple of new clusters have appeared this week in unexpected locations - Denver and Jakarta.

You're more than welcome here wherever you're from, of course, but I hope I can tempt those of you in more far flung locations (relative to myself at least) into leaving a comment. As I said, I'm curious...