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Hello, world
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This site has had one (confirmed) visitor from each of the following countries: Latvia, Thailand, Mauritius, Côte D'Ivoire, India, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Peru, Slovenia, and Guatemala.
Chances are there have been many others from at least some of those places (India, for instance) who have come through something that doesn't report its location -- those results are only from computers that report themselves as being, for example, in the .gt domain for Guatemala. Others probably came in through .com, .net, .org, or computers that report only an IP address number.
Still, to know that at least one person in mountainous Slovenia, tropical Costa Rica, or the hot island of Bahrain read something I wrote here in Vancouver is both exhilarating and, strangely, comforting. Even ten years ago, how could people from those places have read something I wrote, ever?
