law:/dev/null: one year later :)
It was a year ago today1 — the first day of my 1L Orientation at NCCU Law — that law:/dev/null went live with this brief post welcoming any newcomers who happened to drop by.
And my gosh how much has happened in just a year! 
Case in point: a year ago I fled the Turner Law Building as soon as Orientation was done because I felt so totally out of place2… yet this week I’ve been at the law school daily helping out (voluntarily!) with 1L Orientation, offering whatever assistance and sage tidbits of almost-but-not-quite-wisdom that I can provide 
In keeping with my personality, some numbers to commemorate law:/dev/null‘s 1st birthday:
- THEN: 1 published post — NOW: 291
- THEN: 178 total words written — NOW: ~141,268 (where’s this inspiration when I’m working on a brief???
) - THEN: 1 [main] page — NOW: 4 total, including our About [TDot] page, the fellow-blawgers-inspired Disclaimer and finally instructions on Subscribing to the RSS feed
- THEN: 2 categories — NOW: 20
- THEN: 0 tags — NOW: 96
- THEN: ~10 fellow bloggers on the blogroll — NOW: 138. If I’m missing you, send me an email to TDot [at] lawdevnull.com!
- THEN: 29 new unique visitors a day, at least half of which were spambots — NOW: 170, of which only 4-6 are spambots thanks to .htaccess controls
- THEN: 0 comments — NOW: 417 comments and 661 pingbacks (and 2,130 attempted spam posts
) - THEN: 0 typos I saw — NOW: “Another one? @#$%. I’ll fix it later…”
I could go on with the shameless quasi-self-promotion but you get the idea 
I’ve been blessed to do a lot of pretty cool stuff in my life, but getting law:/dev/null started — and more importantly, having y’all read it and at least pretend that you like it! 
— undoubtedly takes top honors.
Thanks for being such amazing people and giving me an added incentive to keep going! I’m looking forward to the year ahead, the opportunity to meet even more of y’all, and hopefully even convince a few more to join me at the N.C. Central University School of Law
Have a great night everybody!
- Coincidentally also the birthday of the Reasonably Prudent Law Student — happy birthday Huma!! [↩]
- Although no one believes me, I’m actually a bit shy
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