It's Always In The Last Place You Look

What better time than the new year to dig into my server stats and see how people got here?  So, here're the top 10 search terms of the year 2005 for leftblank.org and/or heimdall.shacknet.nu:

1. kitten: Not surprising at all.  I had a picture of a kitten on here, and it was getting hotlinked so much that the server actually started spewing out 503 (Service temporarily unavailable) errors.  For a little while it was replaced with a "don't hotlink" shock image, and then after it became apparent that the denizens of the wasteland known as MySpace weren't going to notice, I just deleted it.  If you've come here looking for it, then here's a message for you: It's gone! Go away!
2. sweet potato pie:  An entry from 2004 is responsible for this one.  If you've come here looking for that, then I can heartily recommend trying it out.  It's a good pie.
3. battery:  Who would have thought that a two year-old photo of a battery that spontaneously exploded on my desk would garner so much interest?  It's never hit server-killing bandwidth usage, so this one is still here.
4. labafana:  A surprising entry, given that the page in question only went up in December, and a typo at that.  Then again, that could have just meant that there were fewer page hits, and therefore fewer alternatives than my explanation of why La Befana wasn't a pagan attempt to take over Christmas.
5. pad thai: Yet another two year-old photo, and the second food entry.  Is this a hint that I should turn this into either a blog of old photos, or one consisting solely of food?
6. dance: 2 year-old picture again.
7. random pictures:  Yep, plenty of those here.
8. леÑ%89ен: Um.  Your guess is as good as mine on this one.
9. this space intentionally left blank:  That's my website.
10. sir robert laird borden:  One of three entries in the top thirty search terms that deal with my entry on the MacAdam shovel.  Who knew that ineffective WWI entrenching tools were so popular?

And that's it for the top 10.  The top 30 can be found here for the truly bored or curious.

Finally: sorry if the site's running a bit slow.  My graph of the rapture index got linked to from several places, and I never got around to optimising the code.  (Whoops.)  It should clear up in a few days as traffic from those sites die down.