2010 in Review
2010 was a rather stressful year for me with some insecurity about the future and most of all a feeling that I ought to move on after spending five years at Durham. This was especially prompted by a six week visit to Geneva in the end of 2009. Well, in the end I prevailed and secured a three year postdoc here in Helsinki — a project which was due to start in the beginning of 2011. I’ve now settled back in Helsinki and even bought a flat, so I hope that 2011 will be a bit more productive than 2010 was. 2011 will at least see the publication of my volume Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics, which is almost finished and I’ve got a visit to NYU planned this Spring.
Anyway, this post was supposed to be about 2010, so I’ve pulled some statistics about the year.
- ttahko.net
The traffic to my website has increased steadily through 2010, although there was a slight dip towards the end of the year as I’ve been posting less on the blog. In any case, the number of visits was just below 50k, at 48999, peaking at 2595 unique visitors in September. The website received just over a million hits at 1052206 and used 12.83 GB of bandwidth. Top countries on the visitor list were US, Great Britain, Finland, Germany, Russia, Japan, Canada, China, the Netherlands and Italy. On the blog, my announcement concerning the Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics volume was the most popular post by far, at 1889 views. The top paper was the draft of my paper, ‘In Defence of Aristotelian Metaphysics’ for the mentioned volume with 429 downloads. An old paper on the a priori received 383 downloads and many others were downloaded hundreds of times as well. I hope that the website and the blog continue to interest a wide audience in 2011 (and do leave some comments as well!). - Running
If anything, 2010 was a year of running for me. I started more serious training in February 2010 when I got my first GPS-enabled sports watch and since then I’ve advanced to 200 mile months. My total running mileage for 2010 (since I got the watch) was 2755 km (or 1712 miles) with an average distance of 13.44 km for each run. The number of separate sessions was 205, so I’ve been running just under four days per week on average. I hope to increase each of these numbers considerably in 2011, with a target mileage of at least 2000 miles for the year. All this running took me just under 235 hours, so just under 10 full days of running! That makes an average speed of 11.7 km/h. Oh, and apparently I burnt 142,964 calories while I was at it… In terms of races, I ran eight official races plus seven Parkruns (i.e. less official races), including two half marathons and a marathon. - Travelling
I did an average amount of travelling in 2010, although any amount of flying is too much flying… I attended four or five conferences, which isn’t a huge number. I visited six different countries, which were, in addition to the UK and Finland, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy and Hungary. In addition I did some travelling in the UK. My trip to the Dolomites in Italy for some hiking was among the best, and a road trip in the West Country with my mates Lloyd and Pekka was very nice as well, but my most recent trip to Budapest over the New Year with Pekka may take the title of the best trip in 2010: the number of random alternative clubs in old ruined houses was something of a unique experience! - Literature
I can’t believe how few books I read in 2010. My list claims that I read only ten books from cover to cover, that includes War and Peace, which I’m still reading. Hopefully I can fit considerably more reading in this year. My favourite book of the year must’ve been Lee Smolin’s The Trouble With Physics (see the link for my review). - Photography
I haven’t been shooting as much this year as I did the year before, mostly due to a lack of hill walks, which are my favourite photography opportunities. But I did go on a number of good hikes (with good weather) and I got some reasonable shots on my other travels as well. I’m just going to pick one shot as a favourite of 2010 (below), it’s from a hill walking week in Scotland, a panorama featuring the Five Sisters of Kintail.
The Five Sisters of Kintail
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