I just took a peek at the readership/viewing statistics on my website/blog Aero-Cordero.com and discovered that I have a bunch of viewers in China. Below is a clip of my website statistics page from WordPress, the platform I use for my work:
As you can see, in the past seven days, I’ve had 108 people from China take a look at the trivial stuff I write about — that’s almost four times the number of looks I get from viewers my own country. I can assure you and my Chinese readers that there is nothing of national security interest in my writings, unless you’re wondering if our dog Chester might be a secret agent. (He’s not — he’s just an entertaining ordinary dog.)
This makes me think that some people in China have way too much time on their hands or are looking at Americans’ postings hoping to glean some kind of information they believe will give them some kind of an edge over the United States. That’s kind of scary, when you think about it.
I’m not sure if I can block viewers from another country, but I don’t think it’s possible. Even if I did that, it might lead to efforts to hack into my blog because those guys in China might think I’m up to something sinister. Again, Chinese readers, I’m not.
I doubt that many of the people from China know any more about New Mexico than I do about certain obscure regions of that southeastern Asian nation. Maybe they’ll read that the strange things I often write about will convince them to avoid the Land of Enchantment. Sure, we have some top level security installations in our state — Los Alamos, Sandia and White Sands, but by and large we’re pretty boring and below average on a lot of different measurements.
So I hope, dear Chinese readers, that you’ll get an occasional chuckle out of what I write and wonder why anyone would want to live in New Mexico. After all, why would you want to live in a state that has the tarantula hawk wasp as its official state insect.
