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Wednesday, March 24, 1999
One year ago: Skinnerian
(Written Thursday morning.) I'd planned to get caught up to date here Wednesday evening. But-- Jack's 15-year-old daughter didn't come home from school Tuesday, and is still missing as of now, so I spend Wednesday night with him. (This was fallout from the crisis on Sunday.) We don't know exactly where she is, but she's called her mother twice so we know she's alive. Jack's totally worried still, of course. He's also in job interviews almost every day this week. He said this was the most stressful week of his life, which I can believe.
I was glad that he took me up on my offer of company! It felt that I was doing something to help, even though we just ate dinner and watched TV. All the searching around here and calling around and reporting that can be done, has been done. It felt strange to be in this seeming normality, though, when wondering about how things got to this impass. Jack's INTP personality type kicked in with this crisis, trying to figure out what his daughter was thinking.
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I've been working 12-hour days Monday and Tuesday, trying to get the website I work on ready for a big cluster change and merge next Monday. Communication between the teams that will make this happen is tough! but by the end of the day today it seems like we'll make it. Change all internal URLs that point out of our pages; change the include files, change scripts, change everything hardcoded --- I'm so glad that our tester thought of being proactive when we were getting ready for the launch of IE5 last week, and eliminated some of the things we would have to change now.
At the same time, I've had to do stuff for the internal team websites that I also try to maintain. There's a rather complicated ASP page that I have difficulty with whenever I have to change it; it's a morass of arrays and loops, and I'm not such a hot scripter.
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What I'd like to know is, why am I seeing a spike in hits to pages from the first few days of last October? This has been going on for the last week or so. Has anyone seen a link that I'm not aware of? The one sort of data I don't have easy access to for this site, is referrer logs. Usually if I see hits over background level for any particular journal entry, I can figure out why. I might have linked to it myself, or posted the link somewhere if it relates to a topic being discussed. Last September 11 I talked about Jerkcity, and they put it on their links page (I still think it's a very funny site!). I still get about eight or nine hits a day on that particular entry. I wonder if any of those readers stick around? And sometimes people searching for the phrase "Naked Ladies" come to this entry. But this October thing mystifies me.
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