About my "webcounter"

To forestall a flood of mail informing me that my webcounter doesn't work, I should explain that, and why, why it isn't a proper counter. Received wisdom has it that the homepage which lacks a webcounter is not the true homepage; however, my previous attempts at getting webcounters to work had bizarre results. The best I could get was something which displayed numbers which were apparently random; for my purposes this was less than useful.

Instead, I decided to subvert the concept of a webcounter by creating something which was known to be accurate at least once; this is far better than something which, while impressive, has never been close to reality. Similarly, a stopped clock is better for timekeeping purposes than one which runs slow or fast and is never corrected.

And that's the result. I kind of like the way it creates a grammatically incorrect sentence; it's been the most talked-about part of my pages to date, having fooled all but one person!

Shut up Geoff, I want to go back to your homepage.