2025: Finding my way back to writing, one post at a time

It’s that time of year when I take a step back and look at what actually happened over the last twelve months.

Going into 2025, I fully intended to blog more consistently. In reality, that consistency only really showed up in the last four months — and if I’m being completely honest, it’s mostly been the last two.

And yet, despite that slow restart, this blog saw more life this year than I expected.

This wasn’t a year of volume. It was a year of re-entry.

After long stretches of relative quiet, 2025 became about finding my rhythm again — figuring out what I still wanted to write about, what felt forced, and what I kept coming back to even when no one was asking for it. Writing sorta stopped being something I planned to do and slowly became something I did again.

Allow me the privilege of flattering my ego!

Similar to the above Iteron warping home to some distant orbital station somewhere with the vast universe of New Eden, I find myself warping home to this blog. Full of ideas and renewal. I've got contest results to give a away (remember this?), new posts to write, new ideas to explore, new lists to revisit, and 500 millions ISK to give away. That's right, half-a-billion ISK to give out.

But before we get there, allow me to indulge in some grand delusional scheme that will see my ego grow to the size of the Stay Puft Marshmollow man, before imploding to its normal, above-average standard!

I love stats. I, like many bloggers out there, love to go over this blogs statistics: number of visitors, where they came from, how long did they stay over, where 'd they end up after passing by, as well as what keywords they used to get here. But of all these stats, the one I have the most fun reviewing are the keywords. So lets take a look at the top 20 keywords that get people here, of the last 2000 visits.

1. eve online blog
   
2. eve online screenshot
   
3. eve online podcast
   
4. eve online guides
   
5. eve online corporations
   
6. eve blog pack
   
7. crazykinux
   
8. eve blog
   
9. eve online blogs
   
10. eve mini client
    
11. eve podcast
    
12. capsuleer
    
13. myrmidon setup
    
14. crazy kinux
    
15. capsuleer iphone
    
16. eve blogs
    
17. eve online iphone
    
18. eve overview
    
19. eve myrmidon
    
20. eve online tortuga
    

What's interesting is that in some cases, the link to this blog doesn't appear on the first page but on the 2nd or 3rd, and in some cases as far as the 5th. Yet they get here! Other interesting findings: Myrmidon is the only ship within the top 20, appearing twice, as does capsuleer, crazykinux, podcast, blog(s) and iPhone. Finally, the only video making that list is Tortuga. Not surprising considering the quality of the video.

OK, well that's enough self centeredness for one day, now I'm off putting together another post so that this one isn't the latest post for too long!

Review of (an amazing) November 2008 at CrazyKinux's Musings

November 2008 was a month like no other at CrazyKinux's Musings. Both in terms of content, visitors and comments. It was also a hectic month in terms of RL, with some crucial job interviews at the beginning of the month, which landed me an amazing career opportunity at CNW Group.
Of course, the EVE Fanfest 2008 was responsible for the majority of the sites traffic in the first few days of the month. Iceland and the folks at CCP were amazing and I plan to attend the 2009 edition as well! Maybe this time Mrs CK will tag along and we can spend a few more days visiting the natural beauty of the country.

43 months of blogging about EVE Online!

Somehow I was sure that this blog's 3rd anniversary was coming up in late November. Well, lo and behold when I realized earlier today that I've been blogging about EVE since February 12, 2005! That's over 3 and a half years of EVE posts. Man, talk about an long trek!
The reason for my confusion is that I've been tracking traffic using StatCounter since November 2005, and so, somehow, thought that next month was going to be the3rd year anniversary. Thus my mix-up.

Anyways, I thought that I'd look back at the last 3 years of babbling about EVE on this blog and see how the traffic has increased.

July 2008 in Review

I've been wanting to get back to doing these monthly review for sometime now, but was just too busy with other stuff, or too lazy, depending on how you want to see it. Here we go again. I'm blatantly copying Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob here, as I really like his review format.
So without further ado, let's look at this past month, July 2008.

The Site

• 25 posts
• 74 comments
• 15,668 pageviews
• 10,809 unique visitors
• 2,203 returning visitors

Overall I'm happy with the July post count, though looking back over the last few months I'll want to post more often about what my main character is doing. Over the past several weeks I've put a lot of energy getting the EVE Bloggers Community going, at the expense of posting about Treenara. In the coming months I'll try to give you more regular updates. I've got a few ideas that I need to discuss with Phoenix Labs Executives before though. So keep your eyes open.

More (Ranking) Stats:

• Feed Readers: 254
  
• Alexa Ranking: 269,182
• Technorati Authority: 70
  

By the end of August, I'd like to have 300 readers, be below 250,000 for Alexa and get over 100 in Technorati Ranking. If you can help me get there, I'd really appreciate.


The EVE Blog Pack

In the last month the Pack grew by 6 new blogs - including mine, which I had forgotten to include! I've got 2 more that I'm keeping an eye on, which will likely get added by the end of the month. In his July Review, Wilhelm mentions that he's got an idea for the Pack. I'm very curious about it and can't wait to get word from him.

Overall I'm very happy with the results of the EVE Blog Pack. I think that I've managed to get a great group of bloggers together, with a good blogging momentum. If you're reading and would like to join just let me know in the comments of the Pack post.


The Drone Bay Podcast

Just as it was in June, July only saw the release of 2 episodes (#13 and #14). Crovan came back from his stay in the Land of the Rising Sun but had some PC woes, and this being smack in the middle of the summer holidays, it's been difficult to get together on the regular weekly schedule. Hopefully with August things will get back to normal again.

On a good note, we've done the last 2 episodes in front of a live audience using Ventrilo. So far it's been a lot a fun and a great experience for those dropping in to listen to the show as it's being recorded. Crovan as always works his editorial magic, and the Live experiment hasn't affected the quality of the final edited shows. Look for even more listener interactions in the coming weeks.

Wrap-Up

In other news, after a brief stay at Massively.com, my tenure as an EVE columnist comes to an end. My stay wasn't long, but in that time I've made some great friends, which I hope will continue to be so as our paths take different roads. I wrote 3 features for my Have Clone Will Travel column - I invite you to read them if you haven't had a chance as of yet:

• Ambulation in the EVE tutorial
• An EVE Online Wish List
• 3 Essential Tools for Capsuleers

Next Month

A year ago I was about to start A-Post-A-Day Challenge which in the end saw me complete 26 posts, 4 shy of my goal. I'm thinking of giving it another go, and invite other EVE Bloggers to join me in this Epic adventure! OK, I may be pushing it here, I mean epic, please! I'm only trying to get pumped-up! Khant t'you feel da blood rush in mie big mussel!!!

Fly Safe, or die trying!

EVE Faction Warfare Statistics

For those of you interested in keeping up with the latest kill news on Factional Warfare, the Interstellar Correspondents (part of the ISD) have created a truly great little site with tons of statistics: The IC - Faction Warfare Statistics.

You get to see how many pilots are registered with each faction which is (as of yesterday July 15th) 7,339 Caldari, 5,209 Gallente, 5,142 Minmatar and 3,509 Amarr. You can see the daily kill statistics per faction, per member, over the last 7 days, last 30 days and since the beginning. Looking at these stats we can see that things are dying down a bit after almost a month of fighting. It'll be interesting to see what happens over the next 30 days.

Another neat features is the possibility to see and search by pilot and by corporation. So you can see where you corpmates stand. I'll keep an eye on what Crovan and Alsedrech are doing!!

Enjoy!

CrazyKinux's Musings - Looking back at October 2007

With October behind us and less than two months before Christmas, it's time again for another monthly rap-up. Let's take a look at the stats first:

• 15 posts
• 17 comments
• 14,211 page views
• 9,105 visitors
• 1,337 returning visitors

Apart from the low post count which was a result of a week vacationing in Cancun, and a few days last week in Atlanta on business, the rest of the stats are pretty encouraging. Were almost at the 10,000 visitors a month mark, and just shy also of the 15,000 monthly page views. We're getting good traffic that's for sure!

CrazyKinux's Musings: Looking back at August 2007

Well August has come and gone, and what a month this was. The Post-a-day challenge is now over, and though I know I wasn't able to do exactly that (that is, make at least one post everyday), I still did achieve my second goal, which was to increase my overall posts for the month. I haven't started looking at all the other blogs which I challenged, but I'll get to it in a post or two (patience young Wilhelm!), and post the winner!

CrazyKinux's Musings - Looking back at July 2007

With July behind us it's time to look back, see the month that was, and understand where I can improve this blog.

A bit of statistics first, please. July was...

• 13 posts
• 1 poll
• 38 comments
• 7894 page views
• 5422 visitors
• 848 returning visitors

A pretty good month in terms of visitors and comments, not so much on the posting side. Which is why I've given myself the royal kick in the arse to post at least once a day for August. Still, I'm quite happy with the results. Compared to June, were looking at an increase of 64% in pageviews and 54% in visitors. Quite impressive in my opinion. What's less impressive is that July had half as much posts as June. Not too happy with that one, but I'm working on it.

EVE Online Mini Poll results

After about a week on the site, I've had 42 participants respond to the "How many hours per week do you play EVE Online?" poll. And though the results are lower than I would have liked, I'd have to say that they probably still close to the overall average.

More than half of the respondents play EVE Online more than 10 hrs a week, and I would be one of them. I'm actually playing over 20 hrs a weeks, with about 2 hrs week nights and 10 hrs spread out over the week-end. That may seem a lot, but when you consider that I barely watch TV - about 6 hrs a week - then it doesn't seem so much.

If it did, Stéphanie would not let me any ways. We have a pretty busy social agenda and let me tell you, I better keep up or else! Seriously though, I tend to play late at night (after 9:00 PM), or early in the day (say 7:00 AM on the week-ends), so it rarely conflicts with anything we do.

Now that we're talking about 'when' I play, when do you? Do you play only on week nights, week-ends, whenever you can? Have you ever played an all nighter? Let me know!

As for the results of the poll, here they are:

• I don't play EVE Online - 17% (7)
• Less than 2 hrs - 2% (1)
• Between 2 to 5 hrs - 10% (4)
• Between 5 to 10 hrs - 17% (7)
• Between 10 to 20 hrs - 36% (15)
• Over 20 hrs - 19% (8)

However much time you're spending in EVE, enjoy every minute of it. There's always something interesting to do. It's all up to you!