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Tuesday, November 21. 2006
I should be writing a paper. After all, I think I'll be drinking Wednesday, hanging out with Matt and Amanda tonight, Thanksgiving Thursday, and I'm flying back to Germany on Friday morning. Paper is due monday. It is going to be a good week.
Instead, I noticed that I hadn't said anything on here for about a week. Most of that is due to a lot of stuff going down this past week (a lot of fun was had - and if you want the whole story, IM me. I'm not posting it). I need to upload a bunch of pictures to clear them off my memory cards, which I might try to do tonight. I had a paper and a visitor (well, Mikey did), and well, the computer fell away. So I got on today and started looking at my the statistics for this silly little page. I have to say, I'm quite surprised. (read: thanks for taking an interest).
The number of "unique visitors" keeps going up by about 75%/month. I doubt that many more people are reading, but it shows that people are reading in different places. So cool beans. I haven't really gotten on this week, but there have been visitors. Most of the visitors are me (i can tell from the Irish IP addresses), but there are some that are obviously from the US. Yes, you actually can tell.
What got me was the number of RSS hits the site gets. I'm really glad to see people use that, since that was completely my intention. I don't want to be obnoxious and email people, but if you want to read, I want you to know what's going on.
And then I hit google's stats. The cool thing about s9y is that is auto-submits sitemaps to google, which makes sure that the site is parsed/indexed. Therefore: I can find stuff on it. As a side-effect, I get all sorts of information like who links into my site and what phrases have given me the best page-rank.
Well, I made it to #1. I am the top hit on google for ... "unpeg currency"? wtf, mate? google search: unpeg currency. I'm not really sure how that happened. There are some other weird search terms that'll bring you to my page (I think I'm #6 on "gallery galway"), but that one just stuck out.
Anyways, I think I'm going to the library for a bit to find Metaphysics by Aristotle. Paper... I hope I can get the images up tonight.
Instead, I noticed that I hadn't said anything on here for about a week. Most of that is due to a lot of stuff going down this past week (a lot of fun was had - and if you want the whole story, IM me. I'm not posting it). I need to upload a bunch of pictures to clear them off my memory cards, which I might try to do tonight. I had a paper and a visitor (well, Mikey did), and well, the computer fell away. So I got on today and started looking at my the statistics for this silly little page. I have to say, I'm quite surprised. (read: thanks for taking an interest).
The number of "unique visitors" keeps going up by about 75%/month. I doubt that many more people are reading, but it shows that people are reading in different places. So cool beans. I haven't really gotten on this week, but there have been visitors. Most of the visitors are me (i can tell from the Irish IP addresses), but there are some that are obviously from the US. Yes, you actually can tell.
What got me was the number of RSS hits the site gets. I'm really glad to see people use that, since that was completely my intention. I don't want to be obnoxious and email people, but if you want to read, I want you to know what's going on.
And then I hit google's stats. The cool thing about s9y is that is auto-submits sitemaps to google, which makes sure that the site is parsed/indexed. Therefore: I can find stuff on it. As a side-effect, I get all sorts of information like who links into my site and what phrases have given me the best page-rank.
Well, I made it to #1. I am the top hit on google for ... "unpeg currency"? wtf, mate? google search: unpeg currency. I'm not really sure how that happened. There are some other weird search terms that'll bring you to my page (I think I'm #6 on "gallery galway"), but that one just stuck out.
Anyways, I think I'm going to the library for a bit to find Metaphysics by Aristotle. Paper... I hope I can get the images up tonight.
