Blog year in review: 2020

My Blog Year 2020 began on April 14ᵗʰ, when I heeded the call from LiveJournal to please generate content for all those bored people stuck at home due to the Pandemic.  The year ended, just a tad late, on January 2ⁿᵈ, with the completion of my week of “random links of the day” posts.

How would a normal person review their year in blogging?

• 30 posts written in 9 months.
• 10,402 words accompanied by 62 images (14 of which I had altered)
• 43 comments received from 9 people.
• 41 comments given to (a different set of) 9 people.

Well, that doesn’t quite seem to take the biscuit.  How about some nerdier stats?

HTML tags used: <a>, <abbr>, <b>, <big>, <br>, <div>, <font>, <hr>, <i>, <img>, <li>, <lj>, <lj-cut> <p>, <small>, <span>, <sub>, <sup>, <table>, <td>, <th>, <tr>, <tt>, <u>, <ul>.

CSS properties used: background-color, border-top, border, color, cursor, float, font-family, font-size, font-weight, height, letter-spacing, margin-bottom, margin-left, margin-right, margin-top, object-fit, object-position, padding, text-align, vertical-align, width.

Man, what a stick-in-the-mud I am!  None of the HTML tags I used this year were even invented in the 21ˢᵗ century!  Of the CSS properties used, only object-fit and object-position are at all new and they didn’t even work properly due to differences between LiveJournal and DreamWidth.  We need to go nerdier…

882 uses of 116 different non-ASCII Unicode characters!

Well, okay then!  Can we get a list of all those non-English characters I used?  To make the table shorter, we’ll combine characters with similar names. Those shown with a green background are mundane characters often used by Normies, while those with pink backgrounds work only on my laptop, not on my smartphone, so probably shouldn’t be generally used.

( Table with 63 rows )

And there you have it!