50,000 hits

 

A very special occasion because my blog has received fifty thousand visitors since I set up a counter for my blog back in September 2009.

I want to thank all of you for visiting my blog, reading it and coming back.

I sincerely hope that the material that I post is interesting and provokes some interesting thoughts.

I designed the "fifty thousand" motif above based on several snakes and dragons that are chasing their tails, an oarfish (which may have inspired more than one sea serpent sighting) and a little troll like creature to separate the thousands. A small homage to cryptozoology.

Austin

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Patagonian Monsters - Cryptozoology, Myths & legends in Patagonia

2011 International Year of Forests Copyright 2009-2011 by Austin Whittall © 

Neater Blog better viewing

 
Tidying up the blog.

Today I am going to resize images and go over the site to improve blog loading speed. It will make a better viewing experience for all and save bandwidth.

All new images. Copyright © 2010 by Austin Whittall

A quicker loading blog with smaller images

I have decided to improve the loading speed of my blog and have read up on what makes it slow and how to get it loaded faster. Image size, image location, javascript, CSS, and other factors contribute to speed. So I am doing away with some stuff but keeping most of the homepage elements. So far speed is about 74/100, my target is above 80/100. I will keep on trying.

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Patagonian Monsters - Cryptozoology, Myths & legends in Patagonia

2010 International Year of Biodiversity
 
Copyright 2009-2010 by Austin Whittall ©