Site Information: July 2003 Archives
I thought it'd be fun to burn some more processor cycles, so I whipped up a Most Commented-On Posts page that lists the 50 posts with the most comments. It's based on a method by Lynda over at ScriptyGoddess, and there's plenty more cool stuff over there if you fellow bloggers want to take a look.
Steven Den Beste is right, I am surprised to find Master of None added to his slowly-rotating blogroll. (There's got to be something that rotates slowly, and doesn't carry lots of other connotations, that I could have used as a metaphor, but I can't think of anything that fits. First I had "blog rotisserie", but that implies I'm being cooked; galaxies rotate slowly, but they're huge and have billions of stars.)
SDB finished his post with "[DWL!]", so I'll just thank him here for pointing some new eyes in my direction. Thanks! I'm flattered.
Those of you with the new eyes: welcome! Make yourselves at home. Take yer shoes off and relax; I'll try to think of something entertaining... let's see... where'd that dancing monkey go? Anyway, take a look around, comment on everything, and ya'll come back now, y'hear?
It has been brought to my attention that my night color scheme sucks. If anyone out there is willing to take a look at the style-sheet and suggest some alternate colors, I will be your best friend forever.
I don't know what this means, but The Turth Laid Bear's Blog Ecosystem ranks me #196 when sorted by visits per day, and #664 when sorted by in-bound links. So, possibly Master of None is more popular with non-bloggers than with my fellow bloggers? Of possibly you people need to get off your lazy butts and put up links to me?
Ah, just kidding, I'm in a feisty mood today. And I'm trying to avoid going to work. But, I really should go. Sigh. Stupid work, be less worky!
I do get a lot of hits from Google searches though (because I use lotsa big words). More analysis of the traffic/link question by Oscar Jr.
Update:
Don't forget my linking policy! If you link to me, I double-plus-good guarantee that I'll link back to you! But wait, there's more! If you act now, I'll also send you, absolutely free, one of the hundreds of stray cats from my neighborhood! You only pay shipping. For international orders I'll throw in a couple of crows so that your new pet arrives well-fed. You'll also be enrolled in the Stray of the Month club, at no additional charge.
Ok, just for fun I'm going to put up a Java chat room. Once you click on the link below the chat room will open, and you'll be logged in as "guest". In order to change your name (which I suggest you do), type in a new name in the upper left box and then hit enter. If you don't hit enter your name will not be changed.
It would be cool to chat with some of you, so, check it out. Who knows when I (or anyone else) will be in the chat room, however.
I've been toying around with PHP and created a new color scheme for the blog at night. You'll be able to see it between 6am and 8pm PST; please let me know if it sucks and/or causes your eyes to bleed.
There might be a few other goodies hidden around, as well. I can't believe I stayed up this late.
I know everyone is wondering where I've been for the past three days, and you probably assume that I've been partying like crazy. That's an easy assumption to make for anyone who knows me, but in actuality I've been working all weekend. In fact, let's see... today is the 29th day in a row that I've worked.
On the plus side, all the managers were on vacation for the 4th of July, so I was actually able to get some work done. Now that it's Monday we're back to the three hours-of-meetings-per-day routine (no joke). It's amazing to me that managers at a technology company don't understand how engineers work. Meetings suck my life force, and it can take a considerable amount of time and concentration to get back into the engineering groove; by the time I'm actually being productive again, it's time for another meeting.
So, I look forward to working on the weekends; come to think of it, I'd happily trade weekends for having Thursday and Friday off, as long as management kept a regular schedule. It's very frustrating to be kept from doing real work due to meetings and administrative nonsense, even when it's only the necessary amount of nonsense. At times like this, however, when there are [counting on fingers] 8 managers for every 3 engineers on the project, it gets to be a bit suffocating.
I've managed engineers (before all the recent layoffs) and it's really not hard to coax productivity from productive people: give them clear, unwavering directions; leave them alone; repeat.
I created a new page that lists the 10 Most Recent Comments made anywhere on the blog. There's a link to it on the left under Site Info.
I love it when people leave comments, so do it!
