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January started off with a customary “Happy New Year” message from me, and a recording of my phone call to George Gibson who was filling in on 2GB at the time.
Then we had the final Schnappi update.
After a good suggestion from a reader, I added next and previous post links to the site.
Summernats came to Canberra, and was certainly not the problem free, family friendly event that the organisers insist on advertising it as. Before this sets off another round of local car entusiasts getting angry at me, I have no problem with car enthusiasts who are sensible and obey the law…I just have a problem with the minority who are utter morons.
I showed you my 2005 Santa Photo.
There was a visit from a possum.
Somebody going by the name of “pintail” accused me of being selfish for not linking to everyone and everything that links to my blog.
I made some predictions about the direction of IT in 2006.
SBS stopped using the services of Robbie McGregor for their voiceovers.
Daniel Gibson made his first appearance on this website in a video where he was showing off one of my works of art.
Wayne Mac released the highly awaited book “Don’t Touch That Dial, Hits ‘n’ Memories Of Australian Radio”
This blog became a proud member of PANDORA, The National Library of Australia’s Internet archive.
Samuel’s Persiflage #2, which featured an extensive interview with Wayne Mac was released.
One of the few sensible things ever written about the Australian Blog Awards was written.
I got my copy of Wayne Mac’s book.
One of the worst vulnerabilities ever found in a Microsoft product, the WMF Exploit, was finally laid to rest.
The Canberra Times had their sales increased by CIT.
James Goodwin left 2UE for WIN News.
Australia Day rolled around.
John Kerr returned from holidays, and so did John Laws.
Larry Emdur joined Channel Seven and Wheel Of Fortune.
I had a busy weekend, and announced the return of Samuel In Dolgnwot.
Changes were afoot at 2CA and 2CC.
That more or less sums up January…and with the February summary coming tomorrow morning, we must be getting very close to the birthday of Samuel’s Blog!
Samuel
April 14th, 2006
November, the month leading up to the Christmas Cruise, the month where my employment status changed, and the month where page views skyrocketed due to rather unusual publicity.
The month started with me talking about how it took 20 attempts at taking a school photo until the photographer was satisfied, which was followed by Melbourne Cup fever, with me announcing that Makybe Diva would not win, showing you just how wrong I was, bringing you official TAB dividends, bringing you the complete running order, and finally reviewing the race and how it was covered in Canberra.
The website suffered a little bit of downtime, and a letter to the editor in The Chronicle agreed with my ideas for public transport in the ACT.
I then showed you a picture of the birthday card I gave to 2CC.
I had a dream about eating plates at Christmas.
2UE changed their schedule on a whim, something which 2CC managed quite well, although they did subject us to the Sydney Gardening show.
I had some dreams about fires and bicycles.
October’s Blog View Stats showed a steady increase is page views.
Dinosaurs, my high school canteen, John Mangos and Glenn Wheeler became parts of my dreams.
Then, what is probably the biggest event in the history of Samuel’s Blog occurred. I don’t think I could have ever predicted what was going to happen, or the huge increase in page views that it would bring, but the day that a commenter at The Spin Starts Here made reference to this blog as “the worst blog you’ll ever find”, and I received a Google Alert about a related matter, was the start of a very interesting and annoying chain of events. Most of it occurred on other websites, but it did bring an awful lot of people here, setting a new monthly record for visitors and page views. It also brought a lot of unhelpful comments, which forced another post about editorial policy.
Reading many of the comments left in the weeks after the link from The Spin Starts Here would show you why it was such an unusual and mildly annoying time in the history of Samuel’s Blog.
Anyway, moving on from that, I had a dream about a missing schoolbag, 2CC had some transmitter problems and Kane Bond left 2CC.
I then found out that the New Day Australia Christmas Cruise was going to be held on the same day as my Year 12 Formal…the decision was obvious, go to the Christmas Cruise. I had already paid for it, made travel bookings, and knew that it might be my only chance to meet John Kerr and some of his listeners, so I made up my mind, I was going to Sydney that day. As it turns out, I might be going to another one of John’s functions later this year, and if I knew that back then, I would still have made the same decision.
I had a scary shower, and followed it with a dream about a bicycle race.
Then the rumors of Stuart Bocking taking over New Day Australia from John Kerr started to come partially true, with Stuart replacing George on the weekend version of the show.
I decided to start a podcast, and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire made another millionaire.
I then became effectively unemployed and started looking for another job, and later confirmed just how arrogant my employer had been about it all.
Canberra’s radio ratings were released.
I showed off some of my artwork.
I also showed you some photos of my main portable radio.
2CC announced that they would be at the retirement expo, and I appeared on the John Laws Morning Show.
Click here to hear my conversation with Lawsie.
This was followed by my call being part of The Best Of The John Laws Week. (Click here for the audio).
Spring in Canberra is a lovely time of the year, and a nice garden in Reid caught my attention.
The 90 minute Frasier Finale aired in Australia.
I thought about the connection between 2CA/2CC outside broadcasts, and Mike Frame said he heard me talking to Lawsie.
Dickson College had their year 12 breakfast, which was quite good, and just before it the canteen manager told me that she heard me talking to Lawsie.
After this, we were one week out from the New Day Australia Christmas Cruise, and I started publishing daily weather reports for it. The forecasts were for thunderstorms, then cloudy, and cloudy again, it got better and became mostly sunny, and stayed that way, before becoming possible thunderstorms, then just thunderstorms. More on that in the December summary.
I had a dream about whinging whiteboard owners.
Then I announced that I was leaving for the retirement expo, and then provided a report about it.
I then brought you an update on the Section 84 development.
2CC and 2CA suffered power failures, which reminded John B1_B5 of his time working at ABC transmitters.
The Spin Starts Here fiasco continued, with me agreeing to a photo with Loadedog over coffee.
ACTION sold some of their busses.
I announced my playlist for the trip to Sydney and Back between 2CC & 2UE reception areas.
I then became employed again, and the blog passed 20,000 page views in a month for the first time.
That pretty much wraps up November. December will be up for review tomorrow morning as we get closer to the birthday of Samuel’s Blog.
Samuel
April 11th, 2006
It’s that time of the month again, so here are the stats for March.
The Webstat reports for March can be found here
There were 15,478 page views in March, down from 18,327 in February, and 4,710 visitors, down from 5,025 in February.
There were 5,955 views of the front page on all of its URLs.
The most popular articles were:
Google remained the most popular search engine, followed by Yahoo, and MSN.
The search keywords were mostly various combinations and misspellings of my name, and variations of “schnappi video”. Among the odd keywords were
- curious articles
- podcaster anonymous rings in once a week
- grass drill machine for doors
- channel 9 free cricket to watch
- uses os circular motion
- clarkconnect with lamp
- peep holes in public bathroom
- Reason Like Pineapples
- rambling “and my god have mercy on your soul” “no points”
- what to do when confused
- blog fire alarm control panel
- “a 90 minute” “47 minutes”
- Samuel 30 “3 – 6”
- sign owned by cord excavations
- practice conversation in the restuarant
- 021-52242591
Internet Explorer dropped a couple percentage points but was still the most popular browser with 62.98% of the readership, Firefox gained nearly as much as Internet Explorer lost, and was next with 32.27%, and Safari seemed to pick up the slack on 3.75%. Opera, Netscape, Mozilla and Konqueror were all under 1%.
Windows was the most popular Operating System with 86.67% of the readership, followed by Mac with 12.53%, and Linux with 0.78%. Windows had a minor drop, as did Linux, which seemed to be picked up by Mac.
Australia, The US and Japan and The UK topped the Countries, with 83.76%, 5.59%, 4.52% and 2.09% of the readership respectively, which seems to show that people in countries outside of Australia are taking a growing interest in this blog.
The most popular files for the month were:
The top referring sites for the month were:
Bandwidth
March 2006: 12,350MB
February 2006 9,280MB
January 2006: 14,240MB
December 2005: 14,010MB
November 2005: 2,870MB
October 2005: 657.85MB
September 2005: 519.89MB
August 2005: 82.93MB
Samuel’s Persiflage Statistics
| RSS Feed Downloads |
| Month |
Downloads |
| March 2006 |
1392 |
| Febrauary 2006 |
815 |
| January 2006 |
1661 |
| December 2005 |
150 |
| Total |
4018 |
| Downloads in March |
| Episode |
High
Quality Version |
Low
Quality Version |
Total |
| 3 (February 2006) |
84 |
43 |
127 |
| 2 (January 2006) |
125 |
N/A |
125 |
| 1 (December 2006) |
71 |
N/A |
71 |
| Total |
280 |
43 |
323 |
| Episode 3 Downloads |
| Month |
High
Quality Version |
Low
Quality Version |
Total |
| March 2006 |
84 |
43 |
127 |
| February 2006 |
81 |
39 |
120 |
| Total |
165 |
82 |
247 |
| Episode 2 Downloads |
| Month |
Downloads |
| March 2006 |
125 |
| February 2006 |
98 |
| January 2006 |
144 |
| Total |
367 |
| Episode 1 Downloads |
| Month |
Downloads |
| March 2006 |
71 |
| February 2006 |
64 |
| January 2006 |
291 |
| December 2006 |
80 |
| Total |
506 |
Samuel
April 7th, 2006
Here we are again, with another look at the Blog View Stats for the previous month. I always enjoy this overview of the month, and I think it is really quite fascinating. Before I continue I must apoligise for the rather slow week we’ve just had here on Samuel’s Blog, I’ve been a bit busy and not really had any incentive to write an awful lot this week…we should have more in the next week.
I like the layout of last month’s stats that I’m sticking with that as a template, I will probably clean up the Samuel’s Persiflage stats next month as they will quicly become a mess if I continue to format them in this manner.
Anyway, on with the stats!
The Webstat reports for February can be found here
There were 18,327 page views in February, down from 20,002+ in January, and 5,025 visitors, down from 5,299+ in January.
There were 7,386 views of the front page on all of its URLs.
The most popular articles were:
Google remained the most popular search engine, followed by Yahoo, and MSN….no surprises there!
The search keywords were again mostly various combinations and misspellings of my name. “schnappi video” came in 91 times for some reason. Among the odd keywords were
- mikes-johns
- smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com password
- “To initiate the process for resetting the password for your”
- channel 9 free cricket to watch
- ready presentation
- the first time i saw the cow
- summary of the day after tommorow
- woman for stuart bocking
- phil-ricky
- bunnings belconnen window
- Tianjin to Wenzhou
- Where is my schoolbag?
- netherlands law 2CC
- taking listeners beyond the ad break
- practice conversation in the restuarant
- what is the function of dettol?
- ç‡ƒæ²¹é™„åŠ è´¹ extra
Internet Explorer was the most popular browser with 65.36% of the readership, Firefox was next with 30.52%, and by Safari on 2.81%. It would appear that the gains by firefox were at the cost of all other browsers.
Windows was the most popular Operating System with 87.36% of the readership, followed by Mac with 10.78%, and Linux with 1.82%. It looks like a few people jumped from Windows to Mac, and Mac recorded it’s first double digit percentage. I was surprised to find good old fashioned UNIX with 4 page views and OS/2 with 1 page view, it’s amazing what people will use from time to time.
Australia, The US and The UK topped the Countries, with 88.53%, 3.26% and 2.72% of the readership respectively.
The most popular files for the month were:
The top referring sites for the month were:
Samuel’s Persiflage Statistics
The RSS feed was downloaded 815 times, down from 1661 in January, which was up from 150 in December 2005 making a total of 2626.
Episode 3 (February 2006) was downloaded 120 times, 81 downloads of the high quality version and 39 of the low quality version.
Episode 2 (January 2006) was downloaded 98 times, down from 144 in January, and making a total of 242.
Episode 1 (December 2005) was downloaded 64 times, down from 291 in January, which was up from 80 in December, and making a total of 435.
Bandwidth
February 2006 9,280MB
January 2006: 14,240MB
December 2005: 14,010MB
November 2005: 2,870MB
October 2005: 657.85MB
September 2005: 519.89MB
August 2005: 82.93MB
Samuel
March 4th, 2006
Today’s Samuel In Dognwot is not brought to you by any sponsors, but if you want pay me I won’t refuse.
Today Samuel is watching Wheel Of Fortune, and is supporting the person in the middle yellow space, who is currently on $200.
As you can probably tell, this was before I spotted the comments from Mrs. Nash, and before I got a working pen.
We are now 3 episodes away from finishing the Samuel In Dolgnwot series.
Clicking on the picture will show a larger version, you can also find it on the photo gallery.
Samuel
August 11th, 2005
2UE just can’t make their mind up about their schedule…Glenn Wheeler has supposedly taken leave after working seven days a week almost every week since Stan Zemanek resigned. Stuart Bocking is filling in for him for the rest of this week…Clive Robertson is filling Stuart’s middawn shift.
Friday is a public holiday, and being a public holiday right next to the weekend, 2UE have decided to run their weekend schedule on Friday put George Moore and Paul B. Kidd on breakfast. John Kerr is in Tamworth judging the Country Music Awards, and I highly doubt he will be back for Friday morning, and 2UE being the place it is, I wouldn’t be surprised if Clive Robertson hosts New Day. George and Paul will be hosting the “breakfast” shift, which being a weekend runs from 6am-midday…the upshot of which is that network stations will get them filling in for John Laws.
Update 12:09pm 24/Jan/2007: OK…nice joke from a usually reliable source…very funny. As albona said in the comments below, and as the source has since emailed to tell me, George and Paul are only doing the regular 5:30-9:00 breakfast. Tim Webster will be on the Laws programme…my source doesn’t know who will fill in for John Stanley or Steve Price, I’m tipping Steve Liebmann and Murray Olds respectively. I suppose I was a bit too eager to accept the notion of George and Paul being broadcast nationally again as we don’t get to hear them in Canberra any more.End Update
Apparently Glenn Wheeler won’t be back until Saturday, although that seems a bit odd to me…that shift is a mystery. Mike Williams should be heard on Friday night.
Looking further ahead, and John Laws is back on deck on Monday, with an increased number of network stations. Lawsie will now be heard on a record 73 stations covering 1,500 towns and cities, with an estimated daily audience of two million people. It must cost a fortune for Toyota to advertise on that show!
In further 2UE movements, it is now strongly rumoured that Stan Zemanek’s replacement will either be announced or start on Monday. Interestingly the majority of names flying around as the supposed replacement for Stan are the “beauties” from his television talk show “Beauty and The Beast”. I’ve got to admit that I still fancy Stuart Bocking, especially as he has been put in that shift yet again, and this time without Rachel Friend as a sidekick (that experiment drew more than a few complaints…I can’t understand why, I thought they made a great duo). That being said, my sources are all saying that Stuart Bocking, Clive Robertson and Glenn Wheeler are not in the running for the job.
Samuel
January 23rd, 2007
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