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22 sep 06 "I missed two questions!" also, i keep writing revisions on my racism article, more than i've done on any other (i often revise pages after i post them, which is dumb). so, read it again. now featuring a bell curve! two people submitted questions on friday the 22nd, at around 9pm and 11pm. i checked my spam inbox, and the questions weren't there. the only thing i can think of is that form.pl wasn't working properly. did you see the confirmation screen on which i echo what you sent? i tested form.pl just now, and it worked, sending an email to me on execution. i asked myself "asdasdgasdg", a question i thought i'd have gotten in the mail already (keyboard gibberish). i think i can assess that i have only about five or six regular readers (six might be pushing it), even though, as i've mentioned, i don't pay very much attention to my logs, so i can fantasize that i have thousands of readers or no readers, depending on my mood. this morning's examination was an exception. my average number of daily unique visitors hovers around 30, a number that's a holdover from teeheehee.net, in its old form; perhaps this number of daily hits fits a statistical trend for a website of its type. most of my hits come from search engines, although my stat provider only shows me recent ones. here are some searches done within the past few days that have lead visitors to pages on this site:
tyuy nnn m! tyuy nnn m! sounds like a welsh battle-cry. in most cases, the searcher's querry sent them to closely related information, which is a tribute to the engines. for instance, do women find hairy men attractive points to a page on which i dicuss that subject in some detail. same with robin's costume (i'm on page 2 of the search results). this helps to remind me that the web is supposed to provide information, and that search engines are supposed to help locate that information, so stop trying to sell me your goddamned widgets with pop-up windows. however, i have to admit that shopping on the web is effective, shipping and handling fees almost notwithstanding. listing google searches is a somewhat common practice among hobbyist webmasters, and it usually makes for mildly entertaining reading, if it's not done too often. a list of visitors' searches offers a glimpse into the way minds work as they drift aimlessly around the web -- a zeitgeist of sorts. that's not my association -- i stole it from google, who post their top searches, and name it "the google zeitgeist". i read it from time to time, but the fact is that it really throws into relief just how goddamned boring most people are. however, it might help you make money via the web, if that's what you're into, because the zeitgeist tells you where the minds with wallets attached are going. if some of those top searches are somewhat consistent from week to week, then hurry up and post a page with some good content on "suri cruise" (whoever the hell that is), and load it up with banner ads. i'm going to try it. here are the top ten gaining google searches for the week ending september 11th, 2006:
generally, it seems people just sort of drift and drool along with media culture. if you'd like, please re-submit those two questions (or come up with better ones, or don't bother -- whatever). i only wanted to give here the reason i did not and cannot respond. lucky i decided to peer at my logs this morning -- it makes me wonder how many other questions i've missed. now, i have plausible deniability in case anyone ever accuses me of not answering a question because i couldn't think of anything to say, or because it made me feel uncomfortable: "i never got your question". you know how people ask "did you get my email?", and the answer is always "yes?" i think what they really want to communicate is "did you read my email?" i wonder how often somebody actually does not receive an email sent to them. this does not include emails that get filtered off into the junk mail folder -- i'm talking about emails that simply vanish en route. does this ever happen? moreover, how would we know if it did? spooky. |
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