The Bishop goes from strength to strength

It’s been a ripsnorting July for From the Bishop’s Desk, your encyclical enunciator’s electronic log receiving a site-record one comment—a percentage increase over this website’s prior average (and aggregate) feedback so large the that the Bishop would have to invent a whole new branch of mathematics in order to calculate it.

The trend has continued into August, the Bishop’s newly installed web tracker (free and care of the good people at StatCounter—there’s the kind of plug you’ve been looking for) revealing a mean of nearly eight visits per day over the last three days; though this number did go down a bit when you theistical theoriser worked out how to remove his own IP addresses from the total.

StatCounter also revealed many more interesting factets of passing note, such as the most common hyperlinks used to reach the Bishop’s Desk. Most ‘readers’, it seems, come across said journal by hitting the ‘Next Blog’ icon—a random way of stumbling over other Blogger sites (you’ll see it tucked away at top right-hand of screen)—this promptly followed by their hitting it once again. So far the Bishop’s longest visitor—friends, colleagues and disgruntled dinner party guests aside—has stayed for somewhere in the vicinity of six seconds. A remarkable feat, especially given that it’s just slightly longer than it takes for this site to appear on the Bishop’s screen.

And how will the Bishop celebrate this milestone? With half a bottle of Justerini & Brooks tastiest and a headache the next day, of course.