Friday, November 03, 2006

5-Sided Regular Polygon

Sharing time. If you're a frequent visitor to this blog—and we can define 'frequent' as more than one visit—then you may have noticed how busy this page has gotten. I don't mean busy as in traffic. I mean busy as in bells-and-whistles. In the past few weeks, the page has gained:
• a countdown timer to ... uh ... count. To count down, specifically.
• a terror level alert scale, 'cuz who can pass up Bert & Ernie
• a Clustrmap to see where visitors are from (and let me tell you how humbling that little addition has been; can you guys tell a friend to surf over here once in a while so enough data compiles to earn a dot on the map?), and
• spelling with Flickr (scroll all the way down)

One item that has been a constant since day 1, maybe day 2 at the latest, is the StatCounter. This little gadget counts page loads as well as the IP address of the people viewing the page. If you have your own blog, probably none of this info is new to you. If you don't have a blog, are you surprised in the least that the blogosphere has spawned vast and numerous thriving cottage industries, such as services that do nothing but count?

Mere moments ago, I was mining the data regarding this blog's traffic and saw the following:

IP Address: 134.205.62.17
Host: dhcp062017.hq.af.mil

ISP: The Pentagon
Entry Page Time: 23rd October 2006 11:47:33
Visit Length: 0 seconds
Browser: Firefox 1.5.0
OS: Windows XP
Resolution: 1024x768
Location: Virginia, Arlington, United States
Returning Visits: 0


I've taken the liberty of highlighting the interesting part of the above data pile.

Are we to infer that the world is safe for at least a little while since someone in HQ has time to surf?!?
Should I feel snubbed that said visit was not of substantial length, or any length for that matter?
Is it a matter of concern that the military uses machines that are responsible for the second most popular download of all time, Windows Service Pack 2? (btw: first place is held by iTunes)

I'm going to go peek at the data a bit more and see if there's a hit from whitehouse.gov.

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