The weekend Hamster Sudoku really took off

I've just got home after 3 days away at Manchester Pride and environs, and I was planning to write about that tonight. Only to find that while I've been away my little project "Flickr Sudoku" is being talked about all over the internet!

It started on Friday when it got an out-of-the-blue mention by Tom Coates on plasticbag.org, who appears to have found the link via Siobhan. He described it as "one of the best uses I've seen for the [flickr] API yet".

I am so not worthy!

From there it then started popping up on all kinds of blogs, so much so that at one point it was even listed on del.icio.us's most popular page, which generated a load of traffic. At the time of writing it was stull number 8 on Daypop's top 40 of currently popular blog topics in the world. Pretty damn groovy!

Looking at my traffic logs the some of most popular tags to make puzzles from are...

• Hamster - it's the default setting for the game, and I think that the name "Hamster Sudoku" has kinda stuck as it's official title now!
  
  
• Cat and Kitten - proving that it must be the blog community visiting.
  
  
• Boobs - proving that my visitor demographic hasn't entirely changed after all.

So sorry about this rather self-congratulatory posting but I'm filled with a pretty rare warm glow from having done something that's not just of interest to people in or around the tranny scene, but appears to have busted out into the blogosphere proper. People are linking to my site because apparently I did something cool, and quite rightly the tranny thing is not an issue¹ at all.

Yay me!

¹Apart a rather sweet comment on the 4rthur links page: "Isn't Becky a clever um.. girl?"