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Personal Change Management

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It is time to write again! Unbelievable, but time is flying by like crazy. My last published blog-entry is from 28th of March 2013. That is almost a year. Cannot believe it!

The Year 2013 in Numbers #

Let’s put up some stats of how the year went for this blog. First you see the absolute amount and in brackets the average per month.

01.01.2013 - 31.12.2013

  • Visits: 11,576 (964.67)
  • Unique Visitors: 8,423 (701.92)
  • Page Hits: 16,402 (1,366.83)
  • Pages / Visit: 1.42
  • Average Time of Visit: 00:01:27
  • Bounce Rate: 80,55%
  • % new Visits: 72.35%

Here are the stats from the year before, but only starting from July.

01.07.2012 - 31.12.2012

  • Visits: 2,255 (375.83)
  • Unique visitors: 1,736 (289.33)
  • Page hits: 3,600 (600)
  • Pages / Visit: 1.60
  • Average Time of Visit: 00:01:40
  • Bounce Rate: 77.78%
  • % new Visits: 76.85%

Any peaks in traffic like last year? Maybe, the on in January when I was publishing the post “Why use Sensu?”.

Apart from that, the traffic was more or less constant.

The Missed Goals #

I have also set some goals beginning of last year regarding this blog:

  • Finish “The Book of Sensu”
  • Contribute to Sensu
  • Write lots of useful blog-posts.

The sad conclusion: I have totally failed with all of them.

Up For Something New #

What did I do instead?

Actually, I have found my old love again: Music. In February, I have bought a MIDI piano to teach myself how to play the piano to be able to accompany my daughter when she is singing.

At first, I was using the Mac for generating the sound, but then I have switched to the iPad. Got amazed of how many high-quality apps are out there to learn and produce music on the iPad.

The techie inside of me took over and got curious about MIDI on OSX and iOS. The result? A small application for Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch called “MIDI Aid”.

To Be Continued #

So, what’s next? Actually, “MIDI Aid” could use a few more features and since there are not that many resources about programming with CoreMIDI this blog could be enriched with a few posts around that topic.

Unless … some other interesting technology crosses my way and distracts me from my original “path”.

Done for today!