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2002/07/13
OK, I think news at 2am has gone crazy. Some articles tonight:
  • #1 - Parody, but still odd that it made a link on a news aggregate system
  • #2 - 2nd grader checks out 2 R-rated movies from the library
  • #3 - "A study of college students showed they were 25 percent more likely to be aggressive after watching a "Bugs Bunny" cartoon"
  • #4 - This one explains itself

Oh well, time for bed... Hopefully the news will be better when I get up.
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2002/07/12
Just going through my vacation pics. Found this picture of a license plate that I took in North Dakota. I never saw the driver (it was parked at a gas station), but kinda wish I had...
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2002/07/11
Today I added a dynamic area to my web site. Basically it's a script and each page is a row in a database table that is wrapped by the other stuff and then served up. This way I can add and modify that area by just going to the url. No specific plans for it yet, but who knows what I'll end up doing there.
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2002/07/10
Well, in the past hour or so I've gotten 5 voicemails on my cell phone from one of the server rooms at work. Temperature kees climbing (AC probably went out), and the noise level is too night now (not sure on that one sounds like just a lot of fan noise - maybe the AC is trying to catch up?). Hopefully someone will look at it soon. One of the best benefits of being on vacation has to be selective ignorance of things. :) Of course now I have one more thing to mark down on the list of "change the notification settings for this when going on vacation". I turned off paging, I totally forgot about things that actually make a voice call to me...
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2002/07/09
I came across a great quote on k5. In response to someone commenting on computer bugs, jabber wrote "First off, bugs are nothing but human error with a time delay."
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2002/07/09
OK, now this is based on a database too... While it's a little more server intensive than using an SSI for a plain text file, it allows me to more easily do things like show only the last 10 entries on the front page and have the rest be behind a link. While it doesn't make much of a difference now, imagine if I actually start updating this a lot more frequently. :)

In importing/reading through older entries while importing them I noticed some major spelling/grammar mistakes (it looks like spring finals of 2001 really wiped me out ("finals are friday over" - I'd say that's an appropriate statement of the usual feeling). Sorry to everyone who suffered through them - I'll try to be better in the future.

Not much else is new. I ripped out all the old Commission Junction ads from qux.net that I wasn't getting anything from anyways since most of the advertisers stopped their campaigns. Oh well, now there is a 50% chance of getting an ad, and both the two ads are for yafiygi.com. I'm trying to even out the total hits for yafiygi.com, and the new weighting system helps a lot. I can seed in a bunch of "views" that cause it to effictively ignore a site for a while, and the cleanup is semi-automatic (it'll clean itself up, but if I'm not careful it'll jump back the other way when they are dropped since they won't have any legit visits and the weighting will be really low). I'm debating adding a cookie tracker to force it to not visit sites repeatedly if someone visits multiple times. I have a feeling that some people may not like cookies though, and since it's not a problem yet that I've seen I'll probably ignore it for now.

I think it's time to head off to bed now - maybe another update tomorrow...
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2002/07/08
OK, so I got back yesterday, but didn't work on my site when gone. Maybe this week sometime.
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2002/07/02
Oh man the "About Me" page is way out of date... Maybe I'll make a copy of this thing on my laptop and change it a bit while I'm gone.
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2002/07/02
yafiygi.com is getting a bit of traffic. After messing around with text ads a bit, I found that k5 has the best CTR, and second is metafilter or google, depending on which keywords (bored is doing much better than random). Whatsbetter.com only has 12 clickthroughs, but I don't know how many times the ad has been shown. I think there's supposed to be 75,000 over the next 2 months, so whatever that comes down to per day...

Work is going well, although the last couple weekends with Avalon and Usonia2 have been interesting. I also got the IncidentBase/KnowledgeBase server back up and running with a much newer OS version. Tomorrow it's teaching some people about the Auth server and then I'm done for the week. I'm glad I'm gonna be on vacation for a week and a half. Finally get some time to do nothing...
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2002/06/04
I think it's time to start updating this more often. Maybe this needs to go in a database at some point too... Anyways, I'm now experimenting with Google's adwords. I have 2 ads out their circulating right now, both pointing at yafiygi.com. So far I've gotten 36 clickthrus in 2 days, which isn't too bad considering I set the cost limit low enough that it forces it to be around 20 per day max. I haven't looked today, but I wasn't getting too bad of a clickthrough rate either. I also rewrote the whole postcards system, so now the postcards themselves are database driven. There were many security related issues that needed to be taken care of, that should now be fixed. I still need to figure out a decent background, and then bring the rest of the site to a consistent look with it. Any input is appreciated.
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