Am I the only one who doesn’t like the New Google Analytics? Whereas before I could enjoy seeing just how many visitors my blog was getting each day, on the day, and with the GeoMap Overlay I could also see exactly where in the world my visitors were from…. all that has vanished! To be replaced by indecipherable data and statistics and graphs! Yuck! Why do people always want to change things that work just fine already?

Here’s a short hospitable animated poem about Death (by Billy Collins).

The dead are always looking down on us, they say, while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich, they are looking down through the glass-bottom boats, of heaven as they row themselves slowly through eternity. They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth, And when we lie down in a field or on a couch, Drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon, They think we are looking back at them, which makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait, like parents, for us to close our eyes.