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Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. |
Monday, June 21, 1999
One year ago: Fremont Fair Again
I got some mysterious email today! Someone whose name was unfamiliar to me wrote: "I live in downtown Seattle on 4th Ave. Does this mean I need to take the bus?" Well, I was baffled! Turned out that the person had picked the wrong name in his address book. I wondered if I'd been chosen to be the Internet Oracle today!
I always look at my stats for this site, but I stick with the reports provided by my ISP, rather than use page counters or do my own processing on the raw logs. But yesterday I had such an odd spike that I wanted to do some investigating! My photos page (it really needs updating!) usually gets around five hits a day. Yesterday it got 113 hits! So I messed about with grep and a trial version of report generating software, and found that almost all of them came from a german ISP, in the course of an hour or so. I don't know if someone (or some automated tool) was looking for a different sort of photo, or what! But at least I know that there wasn't some link to my photos page on cruel site of the day or anything.
There's been some significant traffic on the journalcon list. I wonder what sort of gathering will result from all this? It's fascinating to see the different ideas people have of what an online journallers' convention or meeting should be. What would interest me at such an event would be meeting my online buddies! But maybe some people would be more comfortable with the formal conference type of stuff. The idea of working to get some web celebrity to come and speak to us just squicks me, somehow.
There had been stacks of boxes in the hall at work, containing the book version of the DHTML docs. I had the bright idea of asking our team admin to put the empty boxes in my office. I'll take them home -- I took two today -- and fill them with some of the books I'm de-accessioning, as the museums put it. The boxes are handy for this because they are sturdy but small.
So I did some more digging in my bedroom; I'm making progress! I can see the front of the filing cabinet, which has been buried for I don't know how long. After I get the books out of my way and the furniture set the way I want, I'm long overdue for a purge of my bookshelves. Right now I'm just dealing with the books that are on the floor.
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