bookofjoe suddenly huge in Japan

Just now I checked the state of the blog to see what went on while I was sleeping.

The pie chart (above) with the current geographical distribution of my readership looks way strange.

Well over one-third are looking on from Japan.

Why would that be?

I asked my crack research team to investigate.

They learned that a Japanese website called gigazine.net

is responsible.

Gigazine today linked to my January 21, 2006 post about Ian's Shoelace Site: "Bringing you the fun, fashion & science of shoelaces."

So there you have it in a nutshell.