Blogging

Frustrating…

rmiles7721June 12, 2007Blogging, Technology

With it being my day off I probably would have gotten started much earlier with my posting and some of the yard work I wanted to do, but when I got up this morning my connection was down. Once I got home from the doctor I fooled with it for a couple of hours, got frustrated and took a nap.

I finally got my connection going about three this afternoon and have been fairly busy ever since. Oh well. Hopefully tomorrow will be a fairly short day. I have a ton of stuff to do around the house to prepare for the party this weekend, and I also need to get my site fixed.

Dumbass

rmiles7721June 8, 20072Blogging, Technology

I figured out why I was getting deleted files when I downloaded them through bulletproof ftp. There’s a box in the advanced settings that I swear I have never seen before. “Delete files after successful download”. Maybe it’s just that the config location was moved. I’ve been using bpftp since win95 and have NEVER seen it before.

Now that I have figured that one out I am currently uploading all the files it has deleted 🙂

I have also upgraded to MT 4.0 Beta, so be prepared for the entire site to be hosed for awhile.

Twitter…

rmiles7721June 4, 2007Blogging, Technology

…seems to be seriously dragging tonight. I know it certainly is taking my sidebar forever to load because Twitter is hanging. It’s a cool little app but like blogcatalog also hangs sometimes I may end up dumping both if they don’t increase their bandwidth.

Some Boring Stuff…

rmiles7721May 29, 20074Blogging, Site News

Although I use Sitemeter and Z-Extreme counters on my site, every once in awhile I check awstats to see how people are getting to my site as well as what the searches are. I have almost as many image search hits from google as I do keyword. That is amazing.

Here are the biggest keyword phrases that lead people here.

2900 different key phrases Search Percent
republican debate 1198 10.4 %
porn youtube 1107 9.6 %
natalie holloway 829 7.2 %
youtube porn 612 5.3 %
jennifer needs 502 4.3 %
youtube of porn 285 2.4 %
natalie holloway update 249 2.1 %
anna kournikova 144 1.2 %
republican debates 119 1 %
natalee holloway 106 0.9 %
Other phrases 6342 55.1 %

I suppose I need to find the entries that have those phrases in them and put google ads right smack in the middle of them or something. Perhaps I will have time this afternoon. It certainly wouldn’t hurt…

Here is the list of biggest referrers to my site (for the month of May) not including the search engines.

– http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php 193 193
– http://lab-wire.com/klx/tbsp2.php 161 161
– http://huffcrimeblog.com 129 134
– http://www.top-ogloszenia.com 117 117
– http://feeds.feedburner.com/Shadowscope 109 109
– http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com 85 85
– http://payday-loan.sexany.info/Patriotic-Posters.html 80 80
– http://house-boat-rentals.sexany.info/active/Patriotic-Posters.h… 80 80
– http://home.bellsouth.net/s/s.dll 47 47
– http://gutrumbles.com 44 44
– http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi 39 39
– http://technorati.com/tag/porncast 32 32
– http://digg.com/software/Beyond_TV_4_6_Review 31 31
– http://www.25peeps.com 30 30
– http://technorati.com/search/%22ron%20paul%22 29 29
– http://tnchick.com 27 27
– http://www.netvibes.com 26 26
– http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display 25 25
– http://www.sponsoredreviews.com/index.asp 23 23
– http://www.technorati.com/search/%22ron%20paul%22 22 22
– http://www.mcgehee.cc 20 20
– http://tnchick.com/archives/686 20 20
– http://www.technorati.com/search/%22ron+paul%22 18 18
– http://www.mylot.com/nr/viewframe.aspx 18 18
– http://keeskennis.blogspot.com 17 17
– Others 3747 4243

One scary thing that I noticed when I browse the full list in Awstats is that for each blog or “real” web site there are 10 spam sites. Ugly…

Anyone that doesn’t think Google rules the search world needs to look at this sometime. Google accounts for exactly 85% of the search hits that lead here. There were 8997 Google Image hits, 8835 Google hits, the next closest was Yahoo with 1375, and MSN with 690. Obviously it is all in what each search engine thinks is relevant information, but it also shows me that most people (as if we don’t know this already) use Google as their search provider.

The Site…

rmiles7721May 27, 2007Blogging, Entertainment

I meant to link Elisson’s site above as well, but somehow overlooked it. Here is the link.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Spoiler

rmiles7721May 21, 200712Blogging, Entertainment

Harvey has posted a Harry Potter spoiler in anticipation of the new book that is coming out soon. Laughing my ass off…

Updated 7-22-07 I received the book yesterday but the wife has claimed it first so it may be a few days before I get the opportunity to read it and find out exactly who dies. Don’t tell me if you know, I really do want to wait and find out.

Yeah, the traffic is always nice, ain’t it Harvey…

🙂

Now if you are looking for a good book you should really check out Republic by Charles Sheehan-Miles


This book seriously kicks some ass.


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Much Too Early Weekend Open Track-Back

rmiles7721May 12, 200720Blogging

This is my Open Track-Back Post for the weekend of 5/12-5/13

I darn sure didn’t want to get up at 4:30 this moring. The Boy has to be at the recruiting station in 45 minutes so I guess I need to get myself moving and get ready for work. Just wanted to put up a quick post before I go to work. This is my last day of work for this week and I actually managed to get two days off.

Daily Digest

rmiles7721May 1, 20077Blogging, Technology

I figured I would try something a little new here. I signed up for the free Zookoda service which lets me offer a digest of my site postings daily, weekly, and maybe even monthly. Of course RSS is available, and I am even subscribed to several different RSS feeds, but I never seem to read them even though they are right there in Outlook, which is always open.

I do however, get daily digests from a few different groups I am a member of, and I at least skim over them and sometimes actually pay enough attention to read them. The link to the daily digest subscription is to the right, along with different RSS feeds.

I think the biggest reason that I DON’T read feeds is the interaction. I enjoy going to the different sites. That is part of the blogging experience for me.

Whatever. If you are interested sign up. It will give you once per day (if it works correctly) basically what is in my RSS feed for the day in a nicely formatted email and you can click the links if you want to read the entire post.

Eating My Words

rmiles7721April 30, 2007Blogging, Technology

There I was giving Eric a hard time about using up all of his bandwidth for the month and I get home and can’t get to my own site as I have reached my bandwidth limit. Damn that sucks.

They have fixed it for me within minutes of arriving home, but it is certainly humbling to look like a dumb ass.

Jessica Alba

rmiles7721April 26, 2007Blogging, Entertainment

I just set up the extended entry script on here and needed a reason to test it out. What a cheap thrill.

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