According to WordPress.com I had 23,335 subscribers on 6/11/2006. Today it is reporting that I have 26,547.
Welcome! Quitting a job got me more readers than I expected. I thought you’d all unsubscribe after I left Microsoft. Hmmm. Not sure I’d recommend this as a way to get more traffic.
We’ll all take a trip together in the morning as Patrick, Maryam, and I drive from Seattle to Silicon Valley. Can we make it the entire way in one day?
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July 10th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
You might if you can keep from killing each other. Welcome to Cali.
July 10th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
We like road trips. I took Patrick through seven states when he was three months old and he’s been a great passenger ever since.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:56 am
I drove from Half Moon Bay to Seattle in one day [way back in '85 to do a bike trip through the San Juan Islands]. It was a VERY LONG day.
Of course, the later you arrive here, the easier your drive around the Edge of the Known World, as you bypass the great Cabrillo cul-de-sac. ;-)
Have a great trip. We’ll have to get together one day at Cafe de Luca in Montara [no traffic going north on 1 for you] - they have great espresso AND free WiFi. :-D
July 11th, 2006 at 1:03 am
A correction: Cafe Lucca, not de Luca - but then, I remember best from the 15 or so years it was A Coastal Affair. :-P And it is one in the morning.
July 11th, 2006 at 1:09 am
Drive safely, and avoid rush hour to get into Half Moon Bay. It was an absolute killer this afternoon.
July 11th, 2006 at 1:23 am
More likely the first subscription figure was wrong (understated) and the increased activity led to a reassessment - asa neophyte blogger I find the whole measurement side to be wholly inconsistent.
July 11th, 2006 at 1:44 am
I just drove from Seattle to San Diego for the 4th and it took me 2 days down 3 days back. We took 101 up the Oregon coast on the way back and it was an awesome drive. I hope you had better luck with the traffic between Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia then I did. It took me almost 3 hours to go 50 miles…
-Steve
July 11th, 2006 at 2:00 am
Congrats Robert! You are such a hero to me and seeing your blog continue to grow inspires me to no end. :) It’s not easy to make Times New Roman look amazing in these “Web 2.0″ days (or end of days?), but you do it!
July 11th, 2006 at 3:28 am
Scoble Gets 3,000 New Subscribers
Think Scoble’s weaker without Microsoft? Think again. He just got 3,000 new subscribers.
Maybe now Microsoft Philippines knows who he is.
July 11th, 2006 at 4:49 am
Sorry. Add one more I visit everyday but don’t have a reader. I gues I’ll go to Mozilla and get an add-on now. 26,548.
Safe travels to you and yours.
July 11th, 2006 at 6:31 am
We used to drive down to Fremont, CA to visit family for the holidays and it usually took us 14-15 hours from Issaquah, and that was with only going through the drive-thru at a McDonalds in Grant’s Pass for lunch.
It’s a trek, but a beautiful drive, especially through parts of southern Oregon and Northern Cali.
If you like road-trips, it’s a good one.
And a quick recommendation: instead of taking I-5 through Sacramento to get onto I-80 West, get off I-5 at I-505 south and take that to I-80 and avoid the traffic in Sacramento. It can shave an hour off the drive…
July 11th, 2006 at 6:52 am
Ok Robert remember to let Maryam drive the BMW - after all it is supposed to be hers ;-)
July 11th, 2006 at 7:16 am
You can do it, Robert! My wife and I did it last summer on our Philly to Microsoft cross-country move. It took us 13 hours from Redwood City to Seattle with some interesting trip info here:
http://vele.blogspot.com/2005_07_03_vele_archive.html#112040889049188968
If you don’t need to, I’d suggest a few stops along the way: Columbia River around Portland; Crater Lake in southern Oregon; wine country in Oregon; Mount Shasta in northern CA; Napa, Sonoma tour if once you get close to the Bay Area.
July 11th, 2006 at 7:57 am
By the way, this weblog has become 20x more interesting since you left microsoft.
July 11th, 2006 at 8:54 am
More subscribers if you quit!…
Scoble apparently got himself another 3 000 subscribers when he left Microsoft. I wonder if the 3 000 subscribers were waiting for him to no longer be the Voice of Microsoft before they subscribed?
…
July 11th, 2006 at 9:14 am
Soooo… on the Internet, “more traffic” is good, but on the Interstate, “more traffic” is bad?
July 11th, 2006 at 9:46 am
Robert,
First, sorry to see you leaving MS, you were a big part of my decision to accept an evangelist position here.
Second, being I am from CA, I make the drive from Seattle to SF every year to visit family. When I am by myself and only stop for gas, it takes 12 hrs. With the family it takes 15-16. I suggest leaving at 6am, that way you will miss all of the traffic in Portland and then later in the day you’ll miss the Bay Area traffic. I suggest taking i-5 all the way to just north of Sacramento and then taking 505 to I-80. Thats the fastest way. Not a ton to see between Redding and Sac but the rest of the drive is beautiful.
July 11th, 2006 at 9:54 am
I love the roadtrip from Seattle to California. We used to do it at least twice a year when we lived in the Seattle area. It’s doable in one day, especially if you’re only driving to the bay area, but I wouldn’t recommend it. We used to split it over two days. We’d stay in Grants Pass, Oregon, at the end of day one. I miss those trips.
Enjoy!
July 11th, 2006 at 10:13 am
You might, but it’ll be a hell of a long day.
I once drove non-stop from Big Sur to Redmond (well, not counting gas and short rest-stop breaks). Took me fifteen hours, and I drove at speeds that you probably don’t want to offer as role-model driving for your son. It was almost exactly 1000 miles. You do the math.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
If you do the interstate, you can get it done in two pleasant days the way Rob Fahrni describes it. That’s how Vicki and I drove up to Seattle for our wedding.
On the other hand, the drive back was way more fun. At Portland, after dropping off our oldest son Doug (my best man), we cut over to the Oregon Coast, stayed overnight down that coast, continued down PCH to Eureka, stayed in a bed and breakfast, then did the rest of the way down PCH, then down 101 across the Golden Gate bridge and on to 280 and on down to the South Bay.
The two night trip was way nicer than the one-night trip. Either of them is better than a one day trip, although I did a lot of driving like that when I came cross-country from Rochester New York to Palo Alto. There, I had lots of energy and excitement about finally coming to work in Silicon Valley.
Your mileage may vary. Heh.
July 11th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
I’ll do it Robert…I swear…I’ll quit my job if it gets me 3,000 subscribers…don’t think I won’t!
July 11th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
I am interested in how WordPress “knows” the number of subscribers to your blog.
Do they count the number of reads of the xml file, record the Ip addrss and do some sort of analysis (making the subscriber total an educated guess?)
or is there some other magic method ?
July 12th, 2006 at 12:13 am
Not only you :) I am also getting new viewers and subscribers after I left my former job as an Analyst at Digital Media Exchange, Inc. (http://www.dme.ph) aka Mobius (http://www.mobius.ph), a South-East Asian Online Gaming Company.
(*sarcasm mode on*) What’s with leaving a company anyway?
I guess those people that hates a person now loves “ex” employees of the companies they hate. (*sarcasm mode off*)