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Benchmarks!

I just checked my Google Analytics statistics for A Mild Voice of Reason. When benchmarked against other personal blogs, this one significantly outperforms the median on just about every measure, from page views to unique visitors to duration-of-visit. 

Most interesting, an absolute majority of incoming site traffic comes from visitors directly typing “gillikin.org” into their browser bars.  This suggests a loyal following.  So to those of you who pay attention … thank you.

A Better Tomorrow

I’ve been working my tail off on my business-development work lately, in an attempt to substantially augment my meager hospital salary with some home-grown work product.  Highlights of my recent activities include — Finishing a substantial overhaul to gillikinconsulting.com, including adding business-specific social-media connections (realtime IM, new Twitter, Facebook business fan page). Updated my LinkedIn […]

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Update

Tempus ab Iasone fugit.  Here’s the latest scribble in the Chronicle. Work has been steady at the hospital.  We are busy, but a “predictable” kind of busy, although development of the Central Scheduling Data Mart has been a significant calendar and brainpower investment. Horror-movie night on the 31st was a success.  I had Charlie, Rick, […]

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12,000

So today I turn 12,000 days old. A milestone, to be sure.  A time to reflect.  A time to make a simple observation and be ridiculed on Facebook for it.  Whatev. Today I turn 12,000 days old.  And I think that’s interesting.

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Site Revisions

I have made a few changes of substance to A Mild Voice of Reason: The Files/Links page has been updated to include a few more general links, as well as an updated copy of my resume, my journalism clips portfolio, and a link to a static head shot. Content added to the Philosophy page for […]

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In the News …

The last few days have been interesting.  Today I was interviewed by WOOD AM 1300 for the Kent County edition of Red County.  I also picked up a pair of kittens — two adorable orange ones, the replacement for Murphy the Puppy who nearly killed Ryan by means of strong allergens.  Yesterday, I took Murphy […]

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End of an Institution

The Western Herald, the independent student-run newspaper at Western Michigan University (and the paper I used to edit), announced that this fall, it is moving from a Monday-to-Thursday publication week to a Monday and Thursday cycle, with an new emphasis on the paper’s Web portal. This is a depressing turn of events.  The Herald had […]

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Temptation

This morning I was shopping at the Meijer in Standale, purchasing birthday gifts for Ryan.  As I passed through the book aisle, I noticed that a volume — a book about parenting small children, as I recall — had a $100 bill sticking out of it. Yes, a random C-note in the book stack at […]

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