Stuff that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.
I am so happy to see this animated map of the history of the Middle East, because for many years I’ve dreamed about seeing a map like this for the history of the world. This only covers the major empires and other large developments, not each small country or tribe (hmm, how hard would the four-color problem be with a time axis? Automatic switching of colors?), but it’s still a wonderful and illuminating 90 second history lesson.
Looks like SQL was unhappy again, and my host helpfully locked down the site for me. This time, it looks like it was the “get recent comments” plugin, because there’s 30,000 comments on the site (that’s after deleting all the deleted ones and all the spam ones).
I’m opening the site temporarily just to see if we get errors again — if we do, it’ll shutter again briefly while I ponder what to try next.
Edit: looks like disabling the plug-in did the trick. However, it also looks like there’s a newer version of the plug-in that hits the database a lot less often (instead of every time the site is hit, it only hits it when a comment arrives). So I will try installing that tonight when I get home from work when I can watch the site to see if it is overloading again.
Around 375,000 unique visitors to the site in 2006, visiting around 760,000 times, for an average of 2 visits per person, accounting for 225GB of traffic, all told. (That’s not including 3.3m hits and 80GB of bot traffic).
Most people visit on Wednesdays. The fewest visit on Saturdays. 1/5 of visitors add the site to their favorites.
…today, we noticed that the local high school team is called the Saints, not the Wyld Stallyns. A pity.
In any case, Happy New Year. Be excellent to one another. 🙂
Thanks to the Word Stats plugin, I now know that I have written 340,000 words on this blog over the years, 111 a day, an average of 400 words per post.
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