Right then, so here's the deal for 2005. All the stats, facts and figures that no one but Amy, OJ and myself cares about.

Starting with the number of posts. There have now been 1,294 posts to Dayorama. At the start of the year, there had been 494. That means a nice round figure of 800 posts for the year, this being the first full year in which we've functioned. For reference, there had been 365 posts in 2004, 68 in 2003 and 61 in 2002. So 2005 has been a bumper year with an average of just over two posts a day.

On to the charts. Here's the all time posting record since we started in 2002:

That reinforces the point that 2005 has been Dayorama's first full year as a full-time weblog - we didn't skip a day throughout the whole year. Here's the breakdown for the year itself, starting on the running totals as they were at the end of 2004:

That shows the ebb and flow of posting - most notably the increase in my own posting frequency since May - but it doesn't tell the whole story. This is a bit more helpful:

So you can see my quiet start in the first four months was dwarfed by my posting record over the summer. I certainly wasn't top of the consistency charts. Amy only dropped below 20 posts in one month (19 in March), whilst I did so five times, OJ in all but two months (20 in April, 21 in October). But to compensate for that I made 101 posts in June and July, compared to Amy's 58 and OJ's 28. July was in fact our best month with 96 posts between us, as this chart shows:

The first quarter of the year was very quiet, as, for some reason, was November (extended birthday hangover?). But over the exam period and its immediate aftermath our procrastination reached record levels.

On to our individual posting records, a hotly contested area given Amy's recent declaration of a 'posting war'. When Amy joined Dayorama in spring 2004, I had made 66 posts and OJ 63, so you can take those two figures to be the head starts we had over her. By the end of 2004 Amy had 145 posts to her name, just three behind OJ's 148 and 56 behind my 201. By 22 January 2005 - the same day my dog Toby moved to my Dad's house, although I suspect that didn't have much influence - Amy had surpassed OJ. On 9 May 2005 she had 244 posts to my 243 and 'took the lead', albeit just for the one day. By the time of our last update, 25 September 2005, I had 428 posts, 51 ahead of Amy's 377 with OJ trailing on 265.

Mmm. My goodness, that's some good New Year's pavlova. Where was I? Ah yes, right, so down to the real business. Where do we stand now? Well, at the chiming of Big Ben to herald 2006, I had 525 posts. Amy had 460. That places me 65 posts ahead. Amy has therefore gained one post on me since she joined Dayorama, a slight improvement for me on last year and a drastic one since May, given that Amy briefly led the chart. For OJ it's a different story. He has 309 posts, 151 behind Amy and a full 215 behind me. It would take him all his posts from 9 September 2004 until the end of 2005 again, without me adding anything new, for him to catch up.

The totals for the year are as follows: me 324, Amy 315 (a close run thing) and OJ 161 (less so).

On to the posts themselves and our five most popular posts of 2005 according to the number of hits they received. This is a category potentially affected by hits from comment spammers (automated hits to our site to add 'junk mail' comments, of which we get a lot), but since I can't separate spam hits from normal hits I've had to assume that the spambots affect each post in a roughly similar fashion. So, here are the top five most-accessed posts of 2005, in reverse order:

5. Kaiser Chiefs: 'Oh My God' Lyrics - Ollie, 8 Nov 04, 717 hits

4. Google Doesn't Realise I'm Talking Rubbish - Ollie, 11 Sep 03, 730 hits

3. A Rare Occurrence - Ollie, 29 Jul 03, 975 hits

2. Su Doku - Amy, 1 Dec 04, 1,048 hits

1. Network Wail - Ollie, 12 Sep 03, 1,821 hits

Of course, none of those were actually posted in 2005. Of those posted in the year just gone, the top three in reverse order were:

3. Damn, They've Twigged - Ollie, 6 Jun 05, 101 hits (23rd overall)

2. Library Working - OJ, 25 Jan 05, 316 hits (8th overall)

1. Everything Sounded Better In The 60s - Ollie, 29 May 05, 685 hits (6th overall)

Very finally, a New Year's resolution. Posting to this weblog shouldn't be about volume and post counts, even though I personally think they're fun to do from time to time. It's about making it interesting for you lot to read. I've been trying to work on that recently and my personal resolution is to carry that on into 2006 and make it worth your while. Thanks for reading!