bignoseduglyguy

There's no such thing as bad publicity

I am, by nature, a curious animal so I occasionally have a wander through my referrer logs to see who has been linking to my site. Normally, most of my non-search engine related traffic tends to be referred from folks writing about PDAs or Williams Syndrome, subjects which feature prominently in my index page meta-tags.

So you will understand my surprise (as an apolitical kind of bloke) when I found that my Isle Of Dogs page has been linked to as a reference source by John Derbyshire, a columnist for the right wing National Review Online, in his piece on the Summit of the Americas. After reading the article which displays Derbyshire's highly condescending attitude to those who, like myself, live in the Isle Of Dogs area, I find myself in the uncomfortable position of being both mildly flattered and rather more worryingly dismayed.

Whilst I am sure that very few readers of the article will click through to my site, let alone believe that I have the same political standpoint as Derbyshire, I'm not sure that I want to be linked to the NRO's site. On the other hand, the thought of Bush's brain-dead minnions being piped over to my den of low-grade dissention and depravity is more than a little amusing.

Staying with amusing, I also note from my statistics page that the top search string bringing folks to my page is 'Victor Meldrew'. Using Google, I note that by simply referring to the comedy carmudgeon in a previous post, my blog ranks as No.7 in returned hits for the name. As some who know me believe that Victor is a close approximation of what I will become in old age, prehaps this is not entirely inappropriate.