I can’t believe it’s May already. I thought March went by fast. Where the heck did April go? What a whirlwind month. Our water heater was going out, or so we thought, but a simple check of our warranty, and a call to the repair center, and I had the part in my hand to fix it myself. Total cost? $0. Things are looking up!

Let’s take a look at the stats for April.

The top 10 referring sites for April were:

Musing Minds
Wild Heart
The Soda Stand
Insignificant Thoughts
Right TV
Sister Toldjah
Flopping Aces
All Sewn Up
GM’s Corner
Electric Venom

The top 10 search terms that brought people here in April were:

hamachi service (highly recommended)
jack cafferty (way to piss off China, Jack!)
shasta and dylan groene (wow, we’re really going back)
danny federici (may he rest in peace)
warren savage (anchor turned junkie)
my wife naked (yeah, I knew that would draw people)
max helton (may he rest in peace)
cedella booker (may she rest in peace)
jimmy carter (what an oaf)
fudc (there’s another old one)

The top three search engines sending traffic my way were Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live.

The busiest day of the week was Monday. The busiest time of day was 9:00pm EDT, and the busiest day of the month was the 2nd.

Internet Explorer usage dropped to 54.4% from 56.5%. The record low was 48.9% (set in December of 2007). I still recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer.

The top ten countries (after .com, .net, and .edu domains) for April were:

European Union (.eu)
Canada (.ca)
Australia (.au)
Norway (.no)
Great Britain (.gb)
China (.cn) *Still not banned I guess
Germany (.de)
Brazil (.br)
Netherlands (.nl)
Hong Kong (.hk)

The top ten individual pages people came to see (excluding the main index and rss feeds) were:

Running Hamachi As A Service
Akismet Anti-Spam Module for Drupal and phpBB
Jack Cafferty Insulted China. Good For Him*
My Wife Loves Getting Naked
You 2008 Presidential Candidates At A Glance
Danny Federici Dies*
What Is Jimmy Carter’s True Motivation?*
Cedella Booker Dies*
Miley Cyrus Knew What She Was Doing*
A Blogger In Need*

* Six of these posts were written during April. The record for the most posts in the top 10 from the most recent month was 8, set in January of 2008.

The top ten category pages were:

Obituaries
Personalized
Hebetude
Randomized
Boycotts
FYI
Vituperate
Bloggage
Mumbo Jumbo
National News

And now for the numbers.

I had 9,231 unique visitors, over 334,213 page views, over 510,473 hits, the average stay on the site was 2-5 minutes, and you helped me burn 13.80 GB of bandwidth.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Wow, March came and went faster than I could keep up it seems. March was much more difficult, as we dealt with the loss of our beloved dog, Flash. We’ll miss him very much, but we won’t be missing the month of March, that’s for sure.

Let’s take a look at the stats for March.

The top 10 referring sites for March were:

Musing Minds
The Soda Stand
Insignificant Thoughts
Shadowscope
Flopping Aces
Fantastagirl
Sister Toldjah
Basil’s Blog
Pundit Review
My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

The top 10 search terms that brought people here in March were:

hamachi service (highly recommended)
william f buckley (may he rest in peace)
warren savage (anchor turned junkie)
fudc (there’s another old one)
ivan dixon (may he rest in peace)
richard widmark (may he rest in peace)
fred ball (may he rest in peace)
phyllis brown (may she rest in peace)
nicole dehuff (may she rest in peace)
daylight savings time (now that’s weird)

The top three search engines sending traffic my way were Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

The busiest day of the week was Wednesday. The busiest time of day was 9:00pm EDT, and the busiest day of the month was the 4th.

Internet Explorer usage dropped to 56.5% from 58.1%. The record low was 48.9% (set in December). I still recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer.

The top ten countries (after .com, .net, and .edu domains) for March were:

Norway (.no)
Canada (.ca)
European Union (.eu)
Great Britain (.gb)
Australia (.au)

China (.cn) *Still not banned I guess
Netherlands (.nl)
Germany (.de)
Hong Kong (.hk)
South Africa (.za)

The top ten individual pages people came to see (excluding the main index and rss feeds) were:

Running Hamachi As A Service
Akismet Anti-Spam Module for Drupal and phpBB
William F. Buckley Dies
Ivan Dixon Dies*
Goodbye My Friend*
Richard Widmark Dies*
Breaking: Fidel Castro Has Resigned
You 2008 Presidential Candidates At A Glance
Mistaken Compensation*
Barack Obama Supports Legalized Marijuana

* Four of these posts were written during Mrch. The record for the most posts in the top 10 from the most recent month was 8, set in January of 2008.

The top ten category pages were:

Obituaries
Randomized
Hebetude
Personalized
Bloggage
Vituperate
Rotten Stuff
Amber Alert
National News
Natalee Holloway

And now for the numbers.

I had 9,976 unique visitors, over 355,341 page views, over 548,768 hits, the average stay on the site was 2-5 minutes, and you helped me burn 11.50 GB of bandwidth.

Thanks for stopping by!

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The WordPress team surprised me this weekend by releasing WordPress 2.5.

Of course, I spent the next 20 minutes upgrading all ten of my blogs. Yes, it only took 20 minutes to upgrade them all and most of that time was spent uploading the upgrade to each of the sites.

The famous 5-minute installation was a breeze, and all of my plugins work flawlessly.

If you have a WordPress blog, you should think about upgrading, like now. 2.5 is a huge change, and you’ll be glad you did it.

[CrossPosted at The Alligator Pit]

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I know that it’s virtually impossible to guarantee such a thing doesn’t happen to websites in general, but when it happens to an anti-virus site it sure puts things in perspective.

Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to a widespread Web attack that splashed malicious software onto hundreds of legitimate Web sites in recent days.

A Trend Micro spokesman confirmed that the company’s site had been hacked Thursday, saying that the attack took place earlier in the week. “A portion of our site– some pages were attacked,” said Mike Sweeny, a Trend Micro spokesman. “We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night– and took corrective action.”

The article states that it looks like they are getting in through ASP pages and then mentions that any number of bugs in the code could allow them in. Duh, ya think?

I bet the execs at Trend Micro are a bit embarassed today, but they’ll get through it. Shit happens. It’s just shittier when it happens to you. When it does happen to you, you better hope you have automatic lighting from a wall sconce, because it can get real deep real fast, and you don’t want to go down that way. Trust me.

[Crossposted on The Alligator Pit]

If the news about her arrest had arrived sooner I could have made Dawn Wells my Monday Memory, but instead she gets to be this week’s Tuesday Train Wreck.

By now you might have heard she was arrested back in October and it appeared at the time she was under the influence of marijuana.

Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” is serving six months’ unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car.

She was sentenced Feb. 29 to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving.

Under a plea agreement, three misdemeanor counts - driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance - were dropped.

On Oct. 18, Teton County sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Gutierrez arrested Wells as she was driving home from a surprise birthday party that was held for her. According to the sheriff’s office report, Gutierrez pulled Wells over after noticing her swerve and repeatedly speed up and slow down. When Gutierrez asked about a marijuana smell, Wells said she’d just given a ride to three hitchhikers and had dropped them off when they began smoking something. Gutierrez found half-smoked joints and two small cases used to store marijuana.

I am not going to argue whether or not the use of marijuana is a bad thing or not, but I am going to mention that any 69 year old woman who wants to light up, should be allowed too. I just don’t think she should have been driving her car while doing so.

Thanks for the memories, Dawn!

[Crossposted at TinselTown Trash]

February has been a rough month. My mother-in-law had to have surgery, I had to fight with credit card companies over errors on their side, and we found out our Golden Retriever has cancer. I’m glad to see February go away.

Let’s take a look at the stats for February.

The top 10 referring sites for February were:

Flopping Aces
Twitter
United Conservatives Of Virginia
Right TV
Musing Minds
Michelle Malkin
Insignificant Thoughts
Pundit Review
Sister Toldjah
My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

The top 10 search terms that brought people here in February were:

hamachi service (highly recommended)
robert stethem (may he rest in peace)
warren savage (anchor turned junkie)
john stewart (may he rest in peace)
howdy dowdy (wow, that’s an old one)
2008 presidential candidates at a glance (awesome)
graphic design portfolio (wow)
ted kennedy sings (blech)
liquid cancer (look it up)
fudc (there’s another old one)

Heck this month they even searched for medicare part d. I am not old enough yet people, stop looking here for that!

The top three search engines sending traffic my way were Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live.

The busiest day of the week was Tuesday. The busiest time of day was 4:00pm EST, and the busiest day of the month was the 5th.

Internet Explorer usage rose from 58.1% to 60.1%. The record low was 48.9% (set in December). I still recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer.

The top ten countries (after .com, .net, and .edu domains) for October were:

Canada (.ca)
European Union (.eu)
Australia (.au)
Great Britain (.gb)
Netherlands (.nl)
China (.cn) *Still not banned I guess
Germany (.de)
India (.in)
South Africa (.za)
Spain (.es)

The top ten individual pages people came to see (excluding the main index and rss feeds) were:

Running Hamachi As A Service
You 2008 Presidential Candidates At A Glance
Beth Holloway Twitty Returns Home
Breaking: Fidel Castro Has Resigned*
Meredith Emerson Was Alive For Three Days

Barack Obama Supports Legalized Marijuana
Murderer Of Robert Stethem Set Free
David Groh Dies*
John Stewart Dies
Attention Smokers*

* Three of these posts were written during February. The record for the most posts in the top 10 from the most recent month was 8, set in January of 2008.

The top ten category pages were:

Obituaries
Natalee Holloway
Hebetude
Bloggage
Rotten Stuff

Personalized
Reviews
Local Yokel
FYI
Amber Alert

And now for the numbers.

I had 11,760 unique visitors, over 334,860 page views, over 561,763 hits, the average stay on the site was 2-5 minutes, and you helped me burn 11.05 GB of bandwidth.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Every Saturday afternoon I sit here for a couple hours and explore blogs and other sites that I haven’t seen before. I start by clicking one of my favorite blogs and click a random link to someone else’s site. Each week I am amazed at some of the sites I find.

This week, I visited Recognize Anyone. The site is a social experiment to see how small the world really is. I love it. The site simply shows a random photo from a random place on a random day.

I think it would be cool if they posted more photos from random people from random places around the world. Of course I don’t Recognize Anyone in that photo, but then again the odds that I would are very slim. The guy in the blue hat looks like a friend of mine from 20 years ago, but he has a lot more gray hair than that now. Ha!

Take minute and help further the social experiment and see if you Recognize Anyone.

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My wife updated her blog a couple days ago and has been feverishly working to put some of her favorite items online in a gallery.

In addition to the whole new look of the blog and the gallery of some of her works, she has posted pdf files of the original manuals to some of the old sewing machines she has.

She’s also telling stories (which just happen to be true) but I’ll let that slide, for now anyway.

I thought January would never end. Heck, with the writer’s strike and all, I was beginning to think February might not come at all. Just kidding. We all know that had the strike interrupted February we would have seen it come back as a mid-season replacement sometime in May or June.

Let’s take a look at the stats for January.

The top 10 referring sites for January were:

Flopping Aces
Twitter
Genki Desu Yo!
Musing Minds
Real Clear Politics
United Conservatives Of Virginia
Free Republic
Sister Toldjah
The Soda Stand
Sugar Ray Dodge

The top 10 search terms that brought people here in January were:

meredith emerson (may she rest in peace)
christopher bowman (may he rest in peace)
john stewart (may he rest in peace)
heath ledger (may he rest in peace)
hamachi service (highly recommended)
suzanne pleshette (may she rest in peace)
warren savage (anchor turned junkie)
schtuff (wow, brights ones there I tell ya)
allan melvin (may he rest in peace)
nikki bacharach (may she rest in peace)

The top three search engines sending traffic my way were Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live.

The busiest day of the week was Sunday. The busiest time of day was 5:00pm EST, and the busiest day of the month was the 22nd.

Internet Explorer usage rose from 48.9% (the record low set last month) to 58.1%. I still recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer.

The top ten countries (after .com, .net, and .edu domains) for October were:

Canada (.ca)
European Union (.eu)
Australia (.au)
Great Britain (.gb)
Spain (.es)
Poland (.pl)
Norway (.no)
Germany (.de)
Netherlands (.nl)
Finland (.fi)

The top ten individual pages people came to see (excluding the main index and rss feeds) were:

Running Hamachi As A Service
Meredith Emerson Was Alive For Three Days*
Christopher Bowman Dies*
John Stewart Dies*
You 2008 Presidential Candidates At A Glance*
In Memorium: Remembering Those Lost In 2007
Suzanne Pleshette Dies*
Heath Ledger Dies*
You Never Know Whose Path You’ll Cross*
Body Of Meredith Emerson Found*

* Eight of these posts were written during Januray. This sets the record for the most posts in the top 10 from the most recent month.

The top ten category pages were:

Obituaries
Rotten Stuff
Natalee Holloway
Photo Schtuff
Eldritch

Amber Alert
Personalized
Hebetude
FYI
Topical Events

And now for the numbers.

I had 13,343 unique visitors, over 449,932 page views, over 738,426 hits, the average stay on the site was 2-5 minutes, and you helped me burn 15.22 GB of bandwidth.

Thanks for stopping by!

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In Robert Scoble’s latest post regarding the whole Gizmodo kerfluffle at CES, he states,

Funny, back in journalism school I was taught that journalists were supposed to report the news, not make it.

But now I guess we’re in a new world of the blogosphere. I call it “the stuntosphere.”

Just for the record, Gizmodo was credentialed at CES as journalists, not bloggers. So the blogosphere has nothing to do with their stupid stunt. Sure, there are a lot of stupid people in the blogosphere, but don’t blame the blogosphere for all the stupid people at Gizmodo.

Robert also says he wants off the “new ethical journalism” bus.

Personally, I think he jumped off the ethical bus a couple weeks ago when he intentionally broke the terms of service at Facebook, but that’s just me.