Here’s the numbers for the HokeBlarg week…

Blogs Themes Updated: One. I’m both surprised and elated that it only took a few days, but that’s because I had all of my ducks in a row when I shut the blog down for maintenance. In fact, it might have been finished even quicker if I hadn’t suddenly discovered my love for the series “Chuck” and the fact that I can watch many episodes of the show on Hulu, like, anytime. Holy carp, is that show good. I could be watching it now, in fact… NO! FOCUS, CHRIS!

Over the last few days that the blog has been up I’ve also been adding new plugins and sections. I’ve added a “Best of HokeBlarg” section where you’ll find my personal favorites plus the articles that bring the most traffic here, a Related Posts plugin, the “What Would Seth Godin Do?” plugin for new visitors, and the KartMe sidebar widget. (If you haven’t checked out KartMe, here’s a review that you might enjoy, *wink-wink-tongue-cluck-pistol-hand-gesture*.)

Times I Sweared While Trying To Get The Bit.ly Plugin To Work Properly: 4. Effing Christ was that thing touchy. But I conquered it with my mighty code-sword.

Pear-Scented Candles Burned Down To A Molten Mess: 1/2. The wife bought me a pear-scented candle on sale because she knows how much I like pears. I’ve been burning it pretty non-stop for the last week and it’s still going. I don’t know what kind of government military funding is going into candle technology these days, but keep it up. My best explanation is that there is some sort of extra-dimensional wormhole/wax-recycling mechanism in there.

Views Over The Last 3 Days According To Firestats: 1754! Heck yeah, that’s pretty great. And only around half of those came here looking for futurama stuff. In the interest of appeasing my audience, here’s a sweet Futurama-Hellboy mashup I dug up.

I’ve been testing Firestats recently and I like it quite a lot. It’s a good alternative to Wordpress Stats, even though it doesn’t have the simple chart that WP-Stats does. It tells you a lot about who came to your blog, what country they’re from, and what link they followed to get there. (Evidently, my fan-base is comprised mostly of cartoon-loving Germans, to which I say: Ich liebe auch Cartoons!) I also like Firestats because, well, it’s got “fire” right in the name and their logo has some flames on it, so you know it’s fast.

And that’s your Meta-Monday for you. Happy MLK Day! Tootle, pip!