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Daily Search

jay c — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:29:11 +0000

I can’t remember who’s now, but someone’s blog features an occasional award for the most interesting search terms that drive visitors. I always enjoy seeing how people get here, so I thought I’d follow suit.

Today’s prize Search goes to a Cox customer who landed here via a Yahoo search for “patriarchy is good for women.” Congratulations, sir or madam. You are on your way.

Hunting Pigeon Blood

jay c — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:53:32 +0000

Another great new addition to the blogroll: Full of Grace, Seasoned with Salt.

You’re a Tough Crowd

jay c — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:11:08 +0000

Is anyone besides me getting anything out of this blog? Mostly I’ve done it for my own purposes, but I don’t need it so much anymore, and lately I’ve really been hoping that my readers are getting something out of it as well. I have a number of regular readers and quite a few people wander through, but you’re all so very quiet. The fact that some of you keep coming back should tell me something positive, but a few words now and then would tell me a whole lot more.

So tell me this: If I allowed this blog to languish, would anyone really feel like they were missing out? I’ll take your silence as a clear “No.”

Comment Spammers

jay c — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:59:45 +0000

The comment spammers are getting smarter. Frequently, their garbage is pertinent to the article on which they have posted, and actually makes sense. However, a quick Google will find the exact same comment on other blogs, and their email and web addresses clearly mark them as advertisers.

Counting Cards

jay c — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:36:43 +0000

On several occasions someone has told me that they had been reading my blog, but they didn’t show up on sitemeter’s statistics. It might be because of browser settings, ad-blocking software, or some other factor, but I am beginning to suspect that sitemeter is only counting about a third of my visitors. I doubt that another traffic analysis tool would do better.

More WordPress Woes

jay c — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:25:36 +0000

I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress Saturday night, and it wiped out all the edits I had made to the template I was using. I did a backup before the upgrade, but it only backed up the sql tables. Grrr.

Visitor 10,000

jay c — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:13:08 +0000

Congratulations, Verizon customer from somewhere in the vicinity of Potomac, Maryland, using Firefox on Windows XP and a screen resolution of 1280×1024 who clicked in from voxday.blogspot.com on the night of February 20th! You were my 10,000th visitor. Aren’t you proud?

OK, so 10,000 visitors in who-knows-how-many years isn’t much to brag about in the blogosphere. But, gosh darn it, they’re my visitors!