This was a fast busy work week!  I'm out of town for a long weekend so no Interesting Finds the next few days ... I should be back online for the Monday edition.

Last week I got, what looks to be, great reading material for my trip this weekend: IT Consulting by Joe Webb.  Plus today the latest MSDN magazine arrived ... which I've been trying to read - in order to help me catch up with the new stuff.

I don't know if anyone has noticed, but I'm finally starting to order my groupings in the link blog.  Starting always with 'Other stuff' and ending with 'Other link blogs', then in the middle I've been ordering by most technical at the top to less technical and more business/career stuff at the bottom - this seems to help me when I revisit the list throughout the day to read some of the links.  Anyone else notice these things?

I've been thinking a lot about my site and blog lately and thought I would put together a list of some interesting tidbits about it (for the curious out there):

• I currently have between 1000 and 2000 readers that subscribe to my rss (had less than 100 for the first year or two)
• I have between 400 and 600 people visit the site daily (mostly coming from search engines and codeplex - related to Reflector addins)
• I make between $5 and $20 in ad revenue a month (not bad for a bunch of links)
• I started the Amazon Associates links about month ago - and have yet to make any money from it
• I spend around 30 - 45 min each morning putting my link blog together
• Usually I have between 160 and 280 unread entries to go through in the morning
• I rarely read all of the entries I link to (all intentions to do so when I add them - but either change interest throughout the day or don't get to it)
• I have little idea of how many blogs I subscribe to - a recent version of my subscriptions is on my site at http://jasonhaley.com/files/subscriptions.opml
• I type the html for the link blog in notepad (also it is usually before the coffee kicks in ... so some times there are typing errors)
• I use Google Reader and Safari for reading the blogs
• The picture of me on my home page was taken on my wedding day - over 4 years ago (seriously need to update that)
• The picture in the header is of Elliot Bay, taken from Myrtle Edwards Park (along the water front in Seattle) looking towards Bainbridge Island
• ... and I'm working on the next version of the site