Hi... This isn't the most serious of entries. I wrote it two evenings ago, and have been deliberating over whether to post it. And it's kind of overly self-important. But, seeing as the previous post was so angsty, I felt the two probably balanced each other. Best wishes, Daniel

I've got a new hobby. BootsnAll recently added a stats counter on to my site, so I have since been religiously monitoring the numbers each day.

The most interesting aspect of the stats counter is that it monitors how people get to my site - such as coming across it on one of bootsnall's pages, from another website that's put up a link to mine, or from a search engine query. I've got a huge number of visitors from the Meek and Gentle Girls' Sarawakian blogs - so linking blog to blog is quite a marketing tool.

The most intruiging data, however, are the google queries which people entered in order to bring up my blog in the list of results. Some of these give me a warm glow of satisfaction: the person who typed in "travelling without a guidebook", and got my advice and ranting about doing that very thing; the person that typed in "bob breen dan inosanto", and got my whole Thai boxing digression about learning martial arts with those very people. The same goes for things like, "Lao wedding", "Lugu Hu", "Mitre Hotel Singapore".

Some searches, like "locked wood box", I'm not at all sure what the searcher hoped to find, so am just pleased that they gave my diary a chance. But the people I feel I've totally failed are people searching for more, well, adult material. Searches that have brought luckless seekers to me include "Thai schoolgirls", "Gypsy porn" (several times), "Youngest ever girl porn star", "Nicaragua porn", "old peole sex pictures"; and other, more ambiguous searches like, "orangutan picture bum", "farang crazy thai women", "sarawak girls".

Back in China, my friend Tim tried to convince me that if I started giving my articles titles like "Silver tongued lesbians", I'd get more hits - it turns out he was probably right. The page on my site that gets most of my adult material seekers is the article entitled "Gypsy porn star nazis". Type in "gypsy porn" into google, my site is number one on the list. It's something to be proud of I think. The additional hook is that each page on my blog has links in the sidebars to lots of other pages - so typing up "Nicaragua porn" brings up the Gypsy porn star nazis page because, in the title is "porn", and in the bottom right corner is a link to my piece entitled "Nicaragua".
It occurs to me now that, as the Gypsy porn stars article is now some way back in the past, probably that great majority of people coming to the page are the soon to be frustrated porn searchers. Bearing that in mind - perhaps I should rewrite it? All that stuff about Tibetan north west China and getting an upset stomach - that's surely not going to satisfy someone doing their typing one handed. So, I'm thinking of maybe adding in a gay bath house scene, or perhaps a violet eyed and lustfully innocent Tibetan girl, who of course is overwelmed by my irresistible manliness. "She gasped as I pulled open her thick winter cloak..." - hmm, perhaps I should stick to the travel writing...

I should of course say that I have no issue with people coming to my site as part of their search for adult material - I mean, sometimes even I've... well, a good friend of mine has... If that's how you've come to the site, hello, and welcome, hope you like the writing, please leave a comment; sure if I get lots of encouraging comments, I'll start adding in porn themed sections - even a webcam perhaps? Like many blog writers, I am immensely vain, and will do or say anything that I think might get me more readers.

But, in the meantime, I recommend Sarong Party Girl's blog, for scenes where Isabella, "strips down to her panties" so that her maid can give her a full body massage. And for some pictures, this guy in Hong Kong has lots of models / covergirls pinned up among the political commentary.

Thanks for reading everybody!

Daniel, 8 August 2004, KL