Domain name update: I just received notification from GANDI.net that my domains have been successfully transferred from Register.com, Inc.
Yay! I was worried that it would fail before they expired on 7 January 2006, and that I would lose control. But my worst fears did not crystalize, and now my domains are in the loving care of the French.
I’m starting to move my best pictures over to Flickr. I’ll still have my photo gallery here (that will be all my pictures, even the bad out-of-focus ones), but the ones I like the most will be found here. I’ll add a link to the sidebar when I feel like it.
I like Flickr for its organizational tools, like tags and descriptions and the slideshow and all that.
Right now it’s mostly pictures of Smacky. I accidentally resized them to 800×600 (they were shot at 1600×1200) but what the hell, it’ll save on bandwidth.
Administrative note for the site (new posts below this one until noon on 3 January 2006):
My site (and email) may go down unexpectedly in the next couple of days. I’m in the process of transfering my domains from Register.com to a cheaper, and coincidentally non-US, registrar, GANDI.net.
Once it goes through I’ll be saving some money; Register charges US$35.00/yr per domain, and GANDI charges €12/yr per domain. Since I’m moving three domains, I’ll save over US$60.00, depending on the exchange rate.
Since my email is tied to the domain, if anyone has any urgent emails to send me, it would probably be best to use [the domain you’re at right now] at Gmail (dot com) for the next week. Thanks, although I have to say, I don’t expect much urgent email for the next week. Heh.
Happy New Year, y’all.
Update: After thinking about it, I realized that there probably shouldn’t be any problems, since DNS for my domains is handled separately from my registrar. I’m leaving this note up, though, just in case. I received emails from Register that the transfer will happen on 1/3/2006, so that’s the day anything that might go wrong… uh… might go wrong.
Uploaded some pictures I’ve taken over the past few weeks.
Smacky was wanting exactly none of this cold, wet, white stuff. He wanted back inside immediately. Of course, hydraulic pressure forced him outside later… when it was, y’know, colder.
Small update:
I updated my links page with a bunch of new cool stuff I’ve found on the intarweb. None of these are cutting-edge or new, but they’re new to me. A couple of highlights of great time-wasting sites:
Edit: fixed the link to Boing Boing. My bad.
Damn. Did it again.
Missed the anniversary of my blog.
Two years and two days ago I posted my first post.
Happy anniversary, Lunar Obverse!
Maybe I’ll go back and post links to some of my favorite posts. And maybe pigs will fly out of my butt.
Wacky, wacky internets.
I love browsing the stats that are recorded for my site. It’s amazing what I can find out. I’ve done this before and noted the weird search terms that people use and then end up on my blog, for instance.
But this time, I’m looking at the referrers. In other words, pages that had a link to my blog.
The wackiest one is… someone clicked on a link on Cam Girls Live and it took them to my site. It’s #12 on the list… for a total of 3 hits.
Whaaaaaat…? How funny. Cam girls?
(It should go without saying that the “Cam Girls Live” link is not safe for work. But I’ll say it, anyway.)
Damn, I’d love to know who it was. If you’re reading this right now, use the Contact Me page and tell me just what you were doing… and who you were *ahem* “chatting” with… when you clicked over here. And what were you looking for here, of all things?
Updated my Picture of the Week (see, over there? In the right top corner of the page?) with one of a bunch of pictures I took yesterday walking off a gianormous Pepper Bacon Tillamook Cheeseburger I had for lunch from Burgerville. Mmmm… pepper bacon and Tillamook cheese… soooo gooooood.
At any rate, I took a bunch of pictures and couldn’t really decide on just one for my POTW so I thought I’d direct some attention to the whole gallery. Because it’s Independence Day and I’m feeling lazy I’m not going to include thumbnails here, just links.
So, pouring over my site statistics lately. There was a huge, atypical surge in traffic on March 1st, and I’ve been trying to figure out what caused it. I mean, I normally see around 10,000 hits for the month since around October last year, but so far for March I’ve got over 12,000 as of midnight last night (when the site stats update), and over 4500 of them came on one day.
In looking over all the stats that webalizer is providing, I can trace the huge spike to my posting about Jef Raskin’s passing over that weekend. Come Monday, a site called “Web Pro News” found my site and included my small posting along with several others as a tribute. Web Pro News was the referrer for 4400 of those hits, linking to me that day. Interesting. And now I link back to Mr. Rich Ord, completing the circle.
I’ll bet that I don’t generate as much traffic for him as he generated for me… I’m OK with asymmetry, though.
