Mark++ was created a year-and-a-month ago, on April 1st 2005. In observance of this special occasion, I present some stats:
- I’ve made a total of 141 postings (an average of 2.5 per week)
- There have been 125 comments (although many were my own)
- I’ve had a total of 4708 unique visitors, with something on the order of 400 unique visitors per day
- The top search string leading people here is cnn video linux. Are you listening CNN?
- The second and third most popular search strings are tabs illegal and hdcp free
- Most people view Mark++ with Internet Explorer, with Firefox in 2nd place
- Most viewers are running (or at least, claiming to run) some flavor of Windows. 2nd place goes to Mac OS X, with Linux a distant third
- Most of my readers are from the US or Canada, but I’ve received hits from Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Australia, Korea, Sweden, France, China, Greece, Israel, India, Russia, Italy, Turkey, Finland, Belgium, Nicaragua, Poland, Romania, Colombia, Lithuania, Brazil, Ukraine, Argentina, Switzerland, Mexico, Austria, and New Zealand
So, Happy Birthday Mark++. A bit belated, but better late than never, eh?
(Most of the stats above were generated with the excellent Short Stat plug in for WordPress)
The University of Colorado Police Department is offering a $50 reward for identification of each of the 150 individuals seen here smoking marijuana on 4/20. $7500 well spent. I hope they get all these evil doers. It’s apparent from their glazed eyes and carefree demeanor that they are a serous threat to the University. For example, check out this guy:
Clearly dangerous. I can almost hear him cry “Hey bro, dude you look like, aren’t you that guy?, woah buddy, that’s the funniest, what?, ahahahahahaha!, yeaaaah.” as he attacks.
To paraphrase Jesus, “Let he who has never smoked reefer arrest the first stoner.”
(via Boing Boing)
On his podcast today, Jimbo mentioned that WalMart is pulling guns from some stores and filling the void with exercise equipment. Then he suggests that a good play on this is to buy Life Time Fitness Inc (symbol LTM).
I’m sure Cramer is a smart guy, and I like Life Time, but it only takes about 10 seconds of web-based “research” to know that they do not sell gym equipment. They are a nationwide chain of fitness centers.
Increased home gym equipment sales might actually hurt these guys. Indeed Life Time themselves identify home fitness equipment as a “risk factor” in their most recent 10K.
(Disclaimer: I own LTM in my charitable trust, GetMarkRichPLUS.com)
I just noticed that Travelocity has Instant Flight Deal Notification With RSS. I’m not exactly sure why, but I think I prefer this to the old email notification system.
It’s that time of year again. Time to fire up Turbo Tax, pull the lever, and see if I’m a big winner — all the while felling like Al Capone. Should I deduct this expense? Can I prove that I donated that microwave? It’s it worth the risk?
I hate this bullshit.
America, I’ve got one thing to say about your tax code: I’m not impressed. It’s a disgusting mess and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Simplicity is beauty. Anyone can invent something so complicated as to require “experts”. That doesn’t actually make the experts or their profession valuable. Think of all the good things CPAs and the employees of H&R Block could be doing, if only we didn’t have to deal with this crap.
Bottom line: I don’t understand my taxes, so I’m guaranteed to do something wrong. I don’t care, either. Audit me. I’ll give you whatever you want. You’re the man with the gun. Take my wallet.
The EFF has updated their list of unintended consequences of the DMCA. It’s truly scary to see these all on one page.
In all the gigabytes of live Mayer material I’ve collected, this (3:30 into the song) is the first time I’ve ever heard him screw up. I’m not one to rejoice in another’s failures, but I must admit that this gives me hope.
I’ve installed IE7 and I’m starting to mess around with it. For your bulletized-stream-of-consciousness pleasure:
- The new menu bars are going to take some getting used to
- It seems like pages render more quickly
- Finally, tabs
- Improperly renders my blog (bulleted-lists have no bullets)
- Crashed while trying to load Google Reader
- Has Opera-style zoom (images are resized along with text)
- Has some new anti-phishing stuff
- Has an Expose-like “quick tabs” feature
- RSS is supported
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