Innocence lost

Friday Sep 2nd 2005

I checked my server logs recently and some pretty cool stats came out for the month of August. The traffic has been steadily increasing compared to last month. I said to myself Lil’ ol’ me? Aw, shucks! People are actually reading my ramblings? Who’da thunk it?

Tech savvy people like myself are really big into web statistics and actually find it fun to scan over them from time to time. Up until now my primary stats program was AXS. I wrote about it here not too long ago. The only major “flaw” if you can call it that is that AXS does not read the Apache access_log file, rather, it keeps its own flat file database. The reason this sucks is because it will inevitably slow your site down - or stop it cold - if traffic gets too high. I’m using an alternative program now that reads the access_log file. This has sped up the site; a good thing.

I’ve also done some other behind-the-scenes work here… not that anyone cares, but like I said, I do tech stuff and I find it interesting.

I removed AXS completely which has sped up the site like I said a second ago. Speed is good.

I had a few IP addresses I was blocking on purpose due to a few individuals out there who pissed me off. Of course, those people just went over to friends’ houses or used AOL accounts to view my site anyway because Oh, my God what is that asshole writing about now… it must be about me. Uh, no, genius, thanks for playing. I cleared the blocked IP’s out. I had my fun with that. Time to move on.

Funny thing about the choice individuals I blocked who used other ways of getting here - they all have a really specific pattern when browsing pages and don’t even realize it. They usually go to the same posts every time they show up, and if not, they’ll go to any article title they think is about them. Of course, the articles aren’t about them. At all. Then they blast through the archives desperately looking for something about them - and find nothing. Dammit, I know this guy’s writing about me somewhere here. He probably has it in a secret spot that I haven’t found yet. Yes, that must be it. I must have secret sections of this web site where I make fun of you on a daily basis and laugh heartily at your expense. Keep looking.

Another funny thing: The idiots who were blocked believe every word of that. After all, it must be true, right?

The struggle continues.

The template changed last month. I like it so far, and I have to put that “so far” in there because every time I think I’m happy with what I got I change it around. I really gotta stop doin’ that. ;-)

The monthly archive pages have been changed to titles-with-links only. This is because those particular web pages were just way too huge - and I do have more than a few visitors who come here using dial-up internet, so I figured I might as well make things that load relatively quick on a modem with emphasis on the word relatively there.

That’s about it. I am happy for the traffic and that people read my stuph, such as it is. :-)

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