I just finished helping Trevdog (AKA Trevor Essimier) launch his new website, Willamette University Vision (AKA WUVision.com), today. For those of us that went to SAAS with Trevor, this should be a way to get our fix of "Essimiers," but without all those emails. So anyways, dig in.
I’ve known this for a long time and have even submitted various requests. However, I need your help! One man can only do so much. However, one man and his website can do quite a bit, hopefully.
Click here to request that TheFacebook.com add CSM to their list of supported sites. The link will open up in a new window. Once you’ve done if from your computer, go to your neighbors and do it again. And then do it from work. From ALL the computers at work. Go to your neighbors work and do if from there. Go to the public library and click on the link from all the computers their. IM all your buddies and have them click on the link. Here’s the link again: http://www.thefacebook.com/contact.php?newschool=Colorado%20School%20of%20Mines. Share the link with your friends, get CSM added to TheFacebook.com!
Every once in a while, I get fed up with my own CMS (content managment system) and seriously consider switching to Movable Type or something like that. I even get so far as to install the software on my server and start to dabble with it. Then I remember why I use my own CMS: I can do so many more things. Yet, I’m still frustrated with my own system. So I think I found a solution. I’m using the layout format and Stylesheets from Movable Type but then populating the page with content from my own CMS. So I did it (and now you’re seeing it). AFdN v 8.3 codename Rainier II. And I’m loving it. Everything is working so much better and the best part is, text properly floats around the pictures in my blog! This means that AFdN works in MSIE and really well in Firefox. Woo Hoo!
Wave of Destruction has some jaw dropping photos of the devistation in the South Asian region.
Banda Aceh is (was) a city at the northern tip of Sumatra. Portions of the city were stripped bare by the Tsunami.
Rollover One and Rollover Two
Well, I think I’m finally getting around to upgrading the AFdN servers. I bought a couple server boxes last year, however they didn’t have any guts. I’m currently bidding on a set of dual PII 450MHz ATX Motherboards with 512MB RAM in them. It’s really quite a bargin and should work really well in the new setup. I also plan on buying two new hard drives, perhaps 120GB Wester Digitals, for the new setup. The plan will be for each computer to have the exact same setup, but different primary operating modes. Server #1 will be for the primary web server and streaming media server, while Server #2 will be the primary mail server. I may end of changing this so that one computer is the primary for everything and the other computer is just an exact duplicate, but I really don’t know yet.
I just bought one of my books online at Amazon.com for $14 + S&H. It was a $92 book, and yet I got it for over 80% off. That’s rediculus. Why can’t the bookstore be cheaper?
When I get bored (or can’t sleep), I often end up googling either myself or some of my high school classmates. Then I send whatever I find to Trevor on AIM. It’s actually quite fun. Anyways, I actually searched for everybody. Here are some of the more interesting things I found:
See if you can figure out who’s listed in each of these links. Some are really easy, others are a bit harder.
I went over to Ben’s house and watched the Seahawks win, finally. They are going to playoffs, but just barely. Then I headed over to Quinn’s for RibFest 2005. What can I say: awesome. That’s just about it. Anyways. A bunch of use came back to my house and we Halo2ed it up for a few hours before watching Anchorman, still one of the funniest movies of all time. Even the 2nd time through.
I’d thought I post at least some of my New Years Resolutions:
This will probably be the last post of 2004, so I figured that I would just give out a bunch of stats on where AFdN is and where it’s going. First off, there where at least 5804 unique vistors for 2004. With 12918 visits, that comes out to 2.22 visits per unique visitor. All in all, 97,889 pages were server up (7.57 pages/visit) with 576,346 hits (44.61 hits/visit). That amounts to 22.76 gigabytes of bandwidth (1,847.45 KB/visit). There was also an additional 6.64 GB of bandwidth consumed by traffic generated by robots, worms, or replies with special HTTP status codes. The best month in terms of bandwidth was January with 4.37 GB (due probably to some videos I put up). The worst month was October with a mere 694.95 MB (AFdN was offline for about a week while I as messing with the new static IP address). The top robot was MSNBot. The top worm was part of the Nima family of worms (which didn’t cause any ill effects because I use Apache, a non-Microsoft product). The average visit was 468 seconds. The most requested file type was jpg files with 19.8% of the hit requests and 13.6% of the bandwidth.Microsoft Windows XP was the most used operating system with 57.2% and 62.2% of vistors used Internet Explorer 6.0. Google sent 54.7% of the traffic from search engines. http://seablogs.hellbent.org sent 8% of visitors from external pages. "prom pictures" accounted for 5.8% of all keyphrase searches.
So, thanks for making this year such a great year. I’m sure I’ve added at least a gig of content since the begining of the year (mostly pictures, 2720 just in the gallery). I wish everyone a prosperous New Year. Look for my first ever New Years letter coming to AFdN within the next week or so!
