Blogging Blues

For some time, the tables I used for my Mass Scale Chart and Strength Scale Chart have been displaying incorrectly. This was not an issue when I first posted them, but I cannot account for it and therefore have no idea how to fix it. So, should I delete those pages, replace them with links to external files, or leave them as is? I do not know if anyone uses these charts or if anyone even knows they exist.

Speaking of not knowing how many human beings read this blog, Blogger's capacity to share details of a blog's statistics with its creator have become worthless. There is no way to know if the views are from people or bots, which makes the numbers meaningless. The majority of referrers are unidentified. In the last seven days, Creative Reckoning has had 32 references from six identified referring sites and 740 references from "Other." How useful. For keywords used to discover the blog, there used to be... a list of keywords! Now, it just says, "Other... 772 pageviews." How helpful. For top locations, I am supposed to believe that Singapore is number two and Seychelles is number five. Although I would be very pleased if there were indeed vibrant role-playing communities in these countries where people are fascinated by Fudge and somehow finding my blog, I confess to being a bit skeptical. As far as I can tell, the statistics have no value whatsoever, and my only gauge of whether anyone reads this blog (or any of my others) at all is when someone leaves a comment, which is very rare.

I keep several blog rolls on each of my blogs. One is a list of my blogs, one is a list of others' blogs, and sometimes I have a list of relevant podcasts. All of them are set up to display blog posts in order of newest first. Lately, these blog rolls have been updating far less reliably. It has been two days since I last posted in Omnia Pro Omnibus and all of my blog rolls are still displaying the previous post from two weeks ago.

In other non-news, I sort of wish I had picked a different name for this blog. I doubt anyone knows that the inspiration was the term "dead reckoning," which is the true meaning of "fudge" as it is used in the context of the role-playing game entitled Fudge, or that substituting "creative" for "dead" was meant to evoke the academic theme of most of my blogs' titles (Applied Phantasticality, Theoretical Swashbuckling, etc.). "Creative Reckoning" should make one think of Creative Writing as a subject and dead reckoning as a method of GMing Fudge (according to my thinking at the time). Instead, it is probably mostly misinterpreted or ignored, thus utterly failing its purpose.

Thank you (if you are a person) for reading this outpouring of frustration. It's hard to stay motivated in what increasingly feels like a ghost town.