Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Traffic Report

I don’t know what has happened, but starting yesterday, my site traffic has gone through the roof.  I’m getting two or three times the number of visits I’ve ever gotten before, and I don’t think they’re all from automated web-bots and spiders and such - they’re mostly searches for the typical stuff, and by “typical stuff” I mean that 3/4s of them seem to be looking for various pornographic materials ranging from the amusing to the provocative to the repulsive; the remainder are looking for recipes or restaurants or musicians or parks or the typical things I usually talk about.  I’m just as glad that this legion of visitors is not leaving weird random comments in my mailbox, but it does strike me as strange that I’m getting so much traffic and so few comments.  I’d expect to see a correlation between the two but I guess I expect a lot of stuff that just isn’t so. 

I just figured, it’s weird, and I’m all about sharing the weirdness.  I’m not trolling for comments, but if anyone else is experiencing a huge spike in random traffic, I’d be interested in hearing your theory about it.  And for those who care but don’t know, if you click on the little spectral square near the bottom of my sidebar, you can see under “referrals” what kind of traffic I’m talking about.  “Boudoir ideas?” “Bikers church near me?” “Funny pantomimes?” (I’ve omitted the ones that are off-color or worse.) What the hell is going on, all of a sudden?

And just to make it worth your while, here’s a few bits-o-honey from my recently completed memo book:

* Are you ready to rock?  Oh, well, then would you let me know when you are ready to rock? 

* Never fuck with an unknown quantity.

* What exists is highlighted by what does not exist. Tetsuya Noda

*"So, I’d been saying cenotaph and he thought I’d been saying centaur!  Haw haw haw haw haw!” The second bullet took that grin off his face completely. 

* Note from real life: I’ve finally gotten rid of the rolodex card I inherited at work that lists the telephone number for directory assistance. 

That is all.

But have you gotten rid of the rolodex card with 9-1-1 on it?

i just looked through my traffic logs and in the past few days i’ve gone from 700 to 800 visitors a day to over 1,400.  i’ve had no increase in commenting though.  one thing i have noticed a lot more of is trackback spam.  Blacklist is blocking it all but the URL’s are there in the web logs.  there are some Viagra and Poker sites that are hitting me 60+ times a week—for each of their dozens of URL’s!  that adds up after a while.

and i’m always ready to rock…

I’ll tell you, man I have been getting some doosies myself. I don’t know what is up with people but they are sick and need to get out more!

hehe, look maw it’s irony!

On January 5th, I got a few trackback pings that didn’t really trackback anywhere. I mentioned it to someone who knows, and his opinion was that it was a test to see which publishing systems would allow massive pinging as the newest form of spam attack. Apparently, mine (Typepad) was not suitable because it didn’t happen again.

This is the first of a series of 7 daily comments from me. Although I am a hemeral* reader, I have not been able to bring myself to comment because sometimes the post itself is near perfection and I did not want to resort to the level of MeTooism, but that’s all I have.

Brace yourself.

*I just learned the definition and am beating everyone I know over the head with it. Why should you be any different?

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of rasing up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose Government is influenced by shopkeepers. by custom poker chips