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Blog View Stats for January

Once again it is time to take our monthly look at the Blog View Stats, and once again Webstat stopped counting somewhere on January 30 as the site exceeded 20,000 page views for the month. I have made a couple changes to the stats, the usual file stats remain, but no longer take Samuel’s Persiflage into account, that has it’s own category now. I have also noticed the bandwidth stats provided by my webhosting company and will be including them on a monthly basis.

The Webstat reports for January can be found here

There were 20,002+ page views in January, up from 14,499 in December, and 5,299+ visitors, up from 3,743 in December.

There were 7,645+ views of the front page on all of its URLs.

The most popular articles were:

• The People Who Misuse My Name
• James Goodwin Heads For Television
• Another Editorial Policy Post
• My Santa Photo for 2005 and
• Here’s The Schnappi Video

Google remained the most popular search engine, followed by Yahoo, and MSN.

The search keywords were mostly various combinations and misspellings of my name. John Kerr and George Gibson also featured prominently. Among the odd keywords were

• candy man advert
• yearbook graduation comments
• pictures of Samuel’s dream
• spoon restuarant
• how to remove a tree crane bobcat
• clarkconnect via samuel
• photos of werewolf disease
• chkdsk completion going backwards
• dream of eating doughnuts
• powerline ubuntu
• november 2005 guess books of dickson
• clints open mind
• unfortunately samuel
• songs with the word sail

Internet Explorer was the most popular browser with 66.68% of the readership, Firefox was next with 27.27%, and by Safari on 4.31%.

Windows was the most popular Operating System with 91.59% of the readership, followed by Mac with 7.14%, and Linux with 1.16%.

Australia, The US and The UK topped the Countries, with 89.34%, 3.89% and 2.99% of the readership respectively.

The most popular files for the month were:

• The video of ACTION’s horrid green busses and the excessive noise they make, which was downloaded 110 times.
• The original intro for Samuel’s Persiflage, downloaded 53 times.
• The WMV version of my weather picture on Prime Local News, downloaded 52 times.
• My chat with John Kerr on the morning of the New Day Australia Christmas Cruise, downloaded 50 times.
• My conversation with John Laws, downloaded 39 times.

The top referring sites for the month were:

• The Spin Starts Here: 1004 referrals
• Syndicate Motor Sports: 295 referrals (for the record, the photo was taken at the ANU, Manning Clark Centre Lecture Theatre Three at Linux.conf.au 2005)
• The RiotACT: 231 referrals.
• Canberra Cruises: 98 referrals.
• Collective Apathy: 88 Referrals.

Samuel’s Persiflage Statistics
The RSS feed was downloaded 1661 times, up from 150 in December, and making a total of 1811.
Episode 1 (December 2005) was downloaded 291 times, up from 80 in December, and making a total of 371.
Episode 2 (January 2006) was downloaded 144 times.

Bandwidth
August 2005: 82.93MB
September 2005: 519.89MB
October 2005: 657.85MB
November 2005: 2,870MB
December 2005: 14,010MB
January 2006: 14,240MB

Samuel

February 5th, 2006 at 11:37pm

Samuel’s Musician Of The Week

This week’s award goes to Ferlin Husky, and the feature song is “The Wings Of A Dove”, this song has a very uplifting feeling to it, and nobody sings it quite the way Ferlin does.

On the wings of a snow-white dove
He sends His pure sweet love
a sign from above
on the wings of a dove

When troubles surround us, when evils come,
the body grows weak, the spirit grows numb
when these things beset us, He doesn’t forget us
He sends down His love
on the wings of a dove

On the wings of a snow-white dove
He sends His pure sweet love
a sign from above
on the wings of a dove

When Noah had drifted, on the flood many days
he searched for land, in various ways
troubles, he had some, but wasn’t forgotten
He sent him His love
On the wings of a dove

On the wings of a snow-white dove
He sends His pure sweet love
a sign from above
on the wings of a dove

On the wings of a snow-white dove
He sends His pure sweet love
a sign from above
on the wings of a dove

On the wings of a dove
wings of a dove

On the wings of a dove
wings of a dove

Samuel

February 5th, 2006 at 09:48pm

Dream Of Cats

Ah yes, I had another strange dream, this one contained cats.

For one reason or another I was inspecting an apartment at the Bega Flats (for those of you unfamiliar with Inner North Canberra’s public housing facilities, the Bega Flats aren’t exactly what you would describe as prestigious), however this wasn’t a standard apartment for the area, instead of being small and old, it was new, huge and shiny. It had a phone in every room, and they all connected to a big black box on the wall of the kitchen (with sticky tape and wires like a power cord…).

I started looking through the rest of the apartment and walked through a large lounge room which was followed by a large open room with a pool table and a lot of open space, around the corner was a large table and three small cats (they looked more like ferrets than cats, but not to worry.)

I approached the cats and they came over to me, I gave them some attention, but the third one stayed back, I went over and picked it up but it didn’t like that so I put it down again…suddenly they cats started creeping towards me in a vicious manner, I backed off into the room with the pool table, the cats continued to follow me, the third cat caught up to me and bit my hand between my thumb and my forefinger. I could feel the pain and woke up to a stinging sensation where the bite had occured in the dream.

Samuel

13 comments February 5th, 2006 at 08:34pm