Evil Wayne

The 100th Post







Yeah, I'm all about the retarded milestones.

It has taken me, let's see... three plus two.. carry the one... a whole freakin' year-and-a-half to reach 100 posts. Not exactly a triumph of wordsmithery, or regularity for that matter.

So, on this fine occasion, I couldn't really figure out what to write that might be meaningful. I still can't. So I'll fall back on this stand-by entry I was saving for such an event. Oddly, it seems like this is the actual event I should be saving it for (well, it'd be nicer if this was my 500th or 1000th post–which at this rate should be ... one, point five plus... five-hundred posts... carry the three... oh, only 7 years)...

Anyway, for this milestone, let us delve into some of the finer, useless trivia point of evilwayne.com. Most of the following information is gleaned from the site counter I've been using via SiteMeter.com. It's public info (more or less) and it's almost spooky what's recorded sometimes.

Visitor Info (as of 09.09.04)

Total 783
Average Per Day 3
Average Visit Length 3:02
This Week 20

Page Views (as of 09.09.04)

Total 1,641
Average Per Day 4
Average Per Visit 1.3
This Week 25

As you can see, we're doing a rip-roaring business here. Not that I care too much. I started this blog for me and never really asked anyone to come (and that appear to be working... :P).

Time Zones

The sight counter records some goofy information and one of them is the time stamp/zone of the visiting PC. Now, I know this can easily be spoofed so I don't put too much stock in it, but here are some of the more odd time zones records of visitors to this site:

UTC+1:00
CET - Central European Time

UTC+2:00
EET - Eastern Europe Time
Russian Federation Zone 1

UTC+7:00
WAST - West Australian Standard Time

UTC+8:00
CCT - China Coast Time
Russian Federation Zone 7

UTC+0:00
UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
WET - Western European

UTC-1:00
WAT - West Africa Time

UTC-9:00
YST - Yukon Standard Time
AKST - Alaska Standard Time
AKDT - Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time

Man, who knew there was a Yukon Standard Time?!? I sometimes wonder why people actually come here. According to the counter utility they don't appear to stay too long, but I'm not sure how accurate it really is.

Graphical Stats

Here's a few pie charts representing various other cataloged items by the site meter. Unfortunately, I'm not sure whether this is measured within a month, or the whole life of the counter (it's probably the latter).



Comments

There have never been any visitor-related comments. I'm not 100% sure if the system even works. I think that it does not. I've had problems with adding comments to post since day one. Originally I was using an external comments program, blogspeak, but even that didn't integrate very well with my template.

When Blogger added their own comments system, I tried that. It was a simple click-button that added code to the template. The problem appears to be my template. It's a bit older, from when I was first on Blogger a couple of years ago. The code did not mesh well, in fact, it seems to have written in a redirect for my site a few weeks ago.

So I'm going to remove the code and not worry about whether anyone has anything to actually say or not. Email me if you have a rant or something, it's about the only way I'll ever see it at this point.

Blogger's Stats (as of 09.09.04)

On Blogger Since March 2003
Recent Posts 9
Avg Posts Per Week 1
Posts Written 99
Words Written 23,967
Outbound Links 117
Profile Views 0

Why I Originally Started This

I started this blog to have some place to write. I'm terrible with journals, but I do always seem to find myself in front of the computer. So, writing a little bit here and there was my goal. I was actually hoping that it would somehow kick start my writing overall. So far, it isn't working that well.

Paying for a website has made me much more conscious of it though. I do try to put something down weekly and I keep thinking that each entry will be long and slightly narrative in some way. That's not working as well as I'd like. I find that while I constantly think about what to write here, I don't have the actual time to put it down and get it up here.

For example, after the 4th of July, I wanted to post this rant about how I had a really good time because nobody was in Maine for the weekend. But I knew it was a long entry, and I kept putting it off. So finally it got to be mid-August and I just about gave up on the idea.

I could never seem to sit down long enough to blurt it out. And then there's a chronology of the thing that it starts to seem grossly out of place the further away it gets.

I have cheated. I have written some things out of sequence and used the Change Time & Date function to insert them in the correct order. Which is what the damn thing is for, but I always feel guilty about it.

What's Next (Relatively Speaking...)

Parts of the sight are going in for an overhaul in the coming months. My Big Idea (tm) is to first divest the Media pages back to puncducs.com where it really belongs. I'll probably also move the Draw pages with it, not that there's ever really been much of anything to start with there.

evilwayne.com will then just be words. Maybe some pics, but mostly just words.

Okay, there will be Lego too. With the recent reanimation of my collection, I'm actually getting to use it somewhat (well, any use at all is a big improvement over the Nothing it was getting used before). As a result, I hope to have some models built now and then, posting pics and some animations I have planned (which will probably be host via puncducs.com. Plus I'll have all kinds of BrikWars info up there as well. So the bricks pages will stay, but will probably go through some kind of transmogrophication.

Come to think of it, I'll probably keep the Contest pages as well. I would love to have another ridiculous contest soon. Maybe something related to Halloween or Christmas.

All of this will probably take me awhile. I can't image it'll be completed anytime soon. I'm ridiculously slow with this whole thing, so while I want a big overhaul, I'm probably going to have to settle for the tiny, incremental changes that nobody will really notice until something is missing and I'll get rude emails.

Probably from Steve.

posted by Evil Wayne @ 1:30 PM