The important thing is not to stop questioning
Posted on December 18th, 2005 by Cas
Ok, how many people live in Antarctica? Seriously, I am curious, because my host-stats include a breakdown of traffic from the continent of Antarctica. Not surprisingly, I have no people visiting me from Antarctica. I have one person from Nambia, another from the Sudan, and 6 from Uruguay (I like the name of Uruguay), but none from the frozen polar wastes. Odd, that. The Arctic doesn’t have a column, so why should the Antarctic?
If, by some very very odd coincidence, I now have readers reading this from some Antarctic research station, then hello! I was wrong, quite clearly. Oh, and can you get me a picture of some penguins?
Filed under: Daily Waffle
Ok, so technically the Arctic isn’t a continent, so it doesn’t deserve it’s own column, but… You know what I’m trying to say, right?
[...] A while back I pondered why I had Antarctica listed in my server stats as a place people could possibly visit my blog from - I mean, Antarctica. Just a lot of penguins, right? A few months later I was proven wrong and had a merry time looking through lots of blogs written by people having fun in the snow with the penguins. One of the blogs I keep reading is that of Phil Jacobsen. He has a wonderful sense of humour and a great writing style that is always interesting, even when he is talking about stock inventory. I recommend to you his post on outsourcing jobs in Antarctica as an example that you never know where being a humble dishwasher will take you. [...]