Happy New Year

Thought I'd better say happy new year, I hope it's even better than 2005, for all of you.

I'm just reviewing the last years statistics for this blog. This site had 14,272 sessions with 50,477 page views in 2005. That's a big part of the reason why I had to make some edits, to avoid embarassment!

Based on those numbers it seems that most visitors visit other parts of the site, they don't just stay on the front page, which is very encouraging. On average it's 3.54 pageviews per session.

So this is a BIG thank you to everyone who's taken the time to read through these pages, it's a little strange to me that so many are interested. I would love it if more visitors would drop comments so I can know peoples feelings. Most of the comments so far seem to be encouraging me to talk a bit more about Nigeria and Less about my work, so I'll try to change to that style from now on.

I plan to try and visit some different and interesting parts of Nigeria to take photos and write about them. This is something I saw today in another bloggers site [in french], a Frenchman who seems to visit much more interesting places than I do. I can't understand french very well but I can just about get the gist of what is being written about and I'm already asking questions about a field trip to Idanre. Here's another link about Idanre

To try and encourage more comments I am toying with the idea of relaxing the rule that all comments must be from registered blogger accounts. I'm aware that this will also open the doors to spammers, trolls and other idiots who will want to waste everybodys time. I do of course have the ability to remove comments that I don't like so I think if I can keep track of each new comment I'll be able to weed out the troublemakers.

So, for a trial period, comments are now open to anybody, but I am moderating them!