Lunar Obverse

Monday, June 30, 2008

OKfine

I finally succumbed to FriendFeed. What is it, you ask? Well, my sexy yet apparently-cave-dwelling reader, it's a site that aggregates all the various social networking web apps into one spot. So instead of trying to track my friends' Tweets, Flickr updates, YouTube uploads, blog posts, etc., etc... I just track it all on FriendFeed. Is this not nifty?

Yes. It is nifty.

I will find a way to incorporate it as a sidebar here on my blog. In fact, I'm thinking of updating the layout here a bit. We'll see how that goes.

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Sunday, May 04, 2008

Having fun?

After much thought, I have added a little "Donate" button to my left-sidebar. It's down there at the bottom, discreet, not too showy. See it?

It's through PayPal, which not everyone likes, but who has become essentially the bank on the interwebs. And, truthfully, I'm not even 100% sure it works, since I'm unable to test it.

If I've made you laugh, or think, or angry, or otherwise entertained you, and you feel like showing some appreciation, click on the gold Donate button and send somethin' my way. If there are any problems or questions about it, just drop me a line.

Thanks just for reading. Also, I love you all.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Holy crab

I've been averaging around 2400 hits per day, so when I my web stats program showed that I was ~2400 hits from 500,000 last night at midnight, I figured sometime today I should pass that magical and entirely arbitrary point.

I'm home and waiting for "The Office" to come on, so I manually ran my webalizer script early to see how close I was.

And as of 8:40 PM tonight, my site had recorded 502,527 hits since 25 August 2007.

Today's not over and I've already received over 4,622 hits just today. That rocks in an entirely unimportant and yet deeply geek-y way.

There's probably no way for me to tell when, exactly, the 500,000th hit came in so I can't give away a prize or anything. But thanks to all y'all.

The statistic that means the most to me, personally, is the number of visits, which is more closely related to the number of actual people viewing my site, and, presumably, reading my words and looking at my pictures. My average visits per day is 483. Almost 500 people a day are paying attention to what I've written.

I love you all.

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• 8:41 PM 0 comments

Monday, April 21, 2008

Survey delayed

I came up with a cockamamie scheme to spam-proof my reader survey, but the implementation is taking me a bit to figure out. Don't worry, I'll have it up in no time.

Also, I'll be launching my next site in the Lunar Obverse media empire soon. Seriously. Just remember that "soon" is a vague time frame.

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• 10:10 PM 0 comments

Good news, everyone!

I'm just 3 or 4 days from receiving my 500,000th hit since moving my server, calculated from my web stats page.

I'll do a big shot of vodka when I cross that threshold. Or gin. Or dance a jig. One of those.

I'm probably posting my survey tonight. Unless I think of more questions to ask. Y'all are OK with answering a 50-page survey, right? Right?

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• 9:46 AM 0 comments

Monday, April 14, 2008

Fun with statistics

OK, so I've finally got my web stats page working* and I noticed that I'm coming up on 500,000 hits since I moved my site to my own server back in August.

Since my daily average of hits for April is ~1800/day, I should cross the threshold of a half-million hits in about 17 days, or around the end of the month.

Yay, me!

Assuming my traffic remains the same, I'll pick up my 1,000,000th hit in mid-January next year. Will I finally be popular then?

* Mostly - if you click and it redirects to http://Eggers.local/webalizer, try replacing "Eggers.local" with "bamoon.com" in the address line. Yeah, it's a weird DNS thing I don't know how to fix.

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• 5:37 PM 1 comments

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

I swear

I swear I'll get back to the stories soon. I promise. But one last post about my home network and my smaller domains.

I fixed my home network tonight.

My Mac mini was... ahem... asleep. Yes, when I transfered over my settings from the laptop (my main computer) to the Mac mini, it also transfered over my Energy Saver preferences, like going to sleep to save power after about 15 minutes. Ugh. Simple problem, simple fix.

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• 5:19 PM 0 comments

Snap

Oh, snap. I didn't try to reach my domains from a different network - just tried it from my laptop, already on my home network. This morning I can't get to them at all. Can't tell if my cable provider is blocking me (finally, after months and months of not blocking me), or if I messed something up.

I hate spending so much time fixing something, and then finding out it's broken again. That sucks. But there's a chance it's not my fault.

Not that that makes me feel any better. But, y'know.

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Monday, April 07, 2008