Crawling Everywhere.

Copyright © Mark R Kelly 2026

Logging in to my blog today, I was pleasantly surprised to see a huge uptick in post viewing activity.

At last! Was my initial reaction. And then I paused. Stopped what I was doing and looked deeper into the statistical information of my blog. 

Interesting. 

Clearly not human 'viewers', but rather, web crawlers and bots.

Think of them like this: 
Web crawlers (also called spiders or robots) and bots are automated programs that move across the internet, visiting websites, reading content, and performing tasks without a human clicking around. They’re the “silent workers” of the web.

So it would appear that my setting up the Google Form for yesterday, tickled their interest, as I had to dive in and out of said post several times, causing a pseudo-spike in activity.

Either way, it gave me a very brief flush of hope. Not the end of the world.

All that aside, I've been dipping back to the beginnings of my blog - all the way back to posting #1: where it all began. I've decided to perform a touch of 'spring cleaning', inasmuch, that I'm going through each post and checking for spelling mistakes, slips of grammar and any punctuation adjustments.

Truth of the matter is, when I started out blogging I had no clue whatsoever. None. Nada. Niente. And so it was I would write as it poured out of my head. No editing, not even a basic spell check. I just wrote and posted, then sat back feeling happy as.

Now I have to clean up my old self's mess, wherever I find it, reaching back to the very beginning in 2011.

And that's where I am - slowly re-reading my blog, and tidying up my mess like it's the day-after a house party that should never have been allowed. But you did it anyway. I'm enjoying the experience, if I'm honest. Going over the ramblings from a younger version of me. 

What I find most interesting - my voice back in 2011. I mean my 'writing voice'. In many ways I wish I still wrote with that voice today. It seems freer in its expression and flow, more natural and less scrutinised, I suppose.

On the flip-side, I've come a long way in terms of writing, of which I'm quietly proud about. The learning curve has been both gradual and pleasant, but my confidence remains as it was - grounded and not blinded into false assumptions.

And this is where I end today's rambling post. I hope it's been mildly interesting, and if you haven't taken a look at the 'Your Thoughts...' post, please do. It'll help me move forward with my blog and its content.

Until then, I leave you with this...