Measure Map
Posted: Wed 15 February, 2006 Filed under: Geeky 1 Comment »A while back I started using a web analysis package called Measure Map as there were rumours/cases where Nedstat (Now Webstats4u , or somesuch rubbish) was being naughty and serving pop-up ads on websites that used it.
Personally, I wasn’t all that impressed with Measure Map, and ended up sticking with Nedstat (whatever) for the basic daily stats, and using a different offline analysis tool for the big reports and figures. Measure Map hasn’t been able to discern between spam “readers” of posts and proper ones, for example, so the figures have always been a bit skewed. To me, it’s just not reliable.
Anyway, I got an email today saying that Google has bought up Measure Map, which may or may not be an interesting development.
So I said there was news, and here it is: I’m writing you to announce that Measure Map has been acquired by Google, effective today. For the near term, you will see no difference in its operations. In the not so distant future, you can expect great things from this acquisition. We couldn’t be happier to find such an ideal home for Measure Map, and are thrilled at the possibilities.
Irony
Posted: Tue 14 February, 2006 Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts 2 Comments »While coming home from the gym last night, Herself and I were listening to an obviously-gifted person on the local radio phone-in thing (as you can tell, I listen to it regularly. Oh yes.)
She was requesting Kanye West’s “Golddigger” track to be played, which is fair enough, although to my mind it displays an awesome lack of taste. But anyway. The conversation then went on that she wasn’t looking forward to today, as she’d just split up from her partner of five years, and so Valentine’s Day wasn’t going to be good at all, and instead she’d just go out with a couple of mates and get drunk. Again, OK, not my mindset, but there we go.
The clincher, though, was when one of the presenters asked what kind of person she was looking for as a new partner, and she managed to come up with a reply that basically said “Good looking fit multi-millionaire who’s also able to do basic DIY and so on”. And I couldn’t help but wonder about the irony of wanting the “Golddigger” track while being quite so shallow…
Chuff
Posted: Tue 14 February, 2006 Filed under: D4D™, Sweary Leave a comment »I’m so proud. Wandering through my referrer stats, I came across a google search for “Fuck My Chuff” (an elegant phrase – what a pity it didn’t come up as an entire line. Still, it will now…) so I thought “Ah, what the hell, let’s see where I come in google for that.
#1, Baby.
I’m so sad…
Hairy Arse
Posted: Tue 14 February, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts 2 Comments »Caution : Do not read this blog post if you’re at work, or anywhere in public. I find people start looking at you oddly when you’re reading a monitor and giggling like a loon…
Cynicism
Posted: Tue 14 February, 2006 Filed under: Cynicism, D4D™ Leave a comment »In light of it being Valentine’s Day, and in recognition of all the shit that goes on around it, I’ve decided to keep a count today of all the sad sods wandering around with bouquets of hyper-expensive flowers.
It should be amusing, if nowt else.
Current Count : 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11.
Oh, and just in case anyone was interested, the header image today is pilfered/adapted from a thing about the St. Valentines Day massacre. Cheers, Google Images…
Smart Phone
Posted: Mon 13 February, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts 2 Comments »Now here’s an interesting piece, on the ideas that some people are working on with regard to making mobile phones “politer” and “smarter”.
I like the idea of a phone that realises you’re in a cinema, or somewhere quiet, and thus quietens its ringtone, or goes to vibrate only.
Some really interesting ideas in the article – I wonder how long it’ll be before they become reality?