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  • Statcounter Traffic

    April 18, 2005

    Site Traffic for 2005 I use StatCounter to track hits on the site. They’ve got a great interface, and the service is free for a log size of 100. They can pull interesting statistics out of your site that a regular web log analyzer like Analog and Webalyzer tend to obfuscate because they’re just big lists of page hits. Statcounter, by comparison, allows you to track individual visit paths for the records in its log file. It’s pretty slick.

    If you want more space than 100 entries, you have to pay $9/mo and up. So far I haven’t needed this, but traffic has steadily grown. Primarily, this seems to be due to growing awareness of the Lazy Image Layout WordPress image plugin, regional restaurant reviews, people trying to kill fleas with Borax, and the sudden popularity of Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi image searches. It’s fascinating to see what people are looking for.

    No idea how many people are just reading the blog itself…maybe 10-20? That’s still pretty darn cool…thanks guys!

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  • Allergies

    April 18, 2005

    This has never happened to me before, but I think I’ve actually developed some kind of allergy. Was feeling really crappy toward the end of last week, slept a lot, drank a lot of water. Today I had a tremendous bout of sneezing, which almost never happens. Are other people getting hit by this now that Spring has Sprung?

    Sigh.

    Update: I guess it is just a cold. Still “Sigh”

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  • Adobe Buys Macromedia

    April 18, 2005

    Just heard from Duncan that Adobe bought Macromedia for 4.3 Billion. Wow. I think that’s good for us as far as interoperability goes. But it sucks from a vendor diversity perspective.

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  • Hamburger Variations

    April 18, 2005

    Mmm, Rice Burgers! Robert forwarded me a couple links related to McDonalds marketing to Asians Pacific Islander Americans. It’s bizarre. Very Bizarre. I haven’t found an equivalent site for other minorities in the US, but let us take an international tour through the eyes of McDonalds. You can see a list of all the McDonald’s country sites, and travel at will.

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  • The Making of Lauren

    April 14, 2005

    Visit SiteWrapping up Spooky Human-Shaped Things Week is The Making of Lauren, a look inside the studio of a mannequin sculptor.

    When I was a kid I thought they made them by dipping people in plastic and sawing their limbs off for poseability; I don’t know where the idea came from, but they used to really FREAK ME OUT. In truth, the good ones are fabricated by master figure sculptors like Len Gifford.

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