Mac OS X for me...
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Ok, so it has been a while since my last blog entry. It may be quite a while longer until the next post, as I am now employed, for at least the next couple of weeks.
Other than getting a job, my last week has been very busy installing Mac OS X. Thanks to the extremely useful tips at www.osx86project.org it was a procedure but not impossible. My Dell Dimension 2400 is now running Mac OS X. My only problem with the Broadcomm 440 on-board ethernet. It worked under 10.4.1 but doesn't under 10.4.8. Instead of messing with it excessively, I've just dropped a Realtek card into a PCI slot and that works like a charm.
For your enjoyment I have tried to keep track of some of the software, I have been installing, since I bootstrapped up a clean operating system. Much of this is open source, available for Unix (can you say AIX? cause I know you can say Solaris) also as in Linux (y'know like Ubuntu and Red Hat), but don't forget BSD is/was Unix too (like OpenBSD, my favourite FreeBSD and Mac OS X). Most of this software even runs on Windows, if you have the stomach for it, I have even been doing a little messing around on Vista in the last couple of weeks. You guessed it.. it sucks.
Feel free to add your favourite applications, that you think, I should download in the comments below.
I recommend all these fine pieces of software:
PS: Dontcha just love that Canada:
Other than getting a job, my last week has been very busy installing Mac OS X. Thanks to the extremely useful tips at www.osx86project.org it was a procedure but not impossible. My Dell Dimension 2400 is now running Mac OS X. My only problem with the Broadcomm 440 on-board ethernet. It worked under 10.4.1 but doesn't under 10.4.8. Instead of messing with it excessively, I've just dropped a Realtek card into a PCI slot and that works like a charm.
For your enjoyment I have tried to keep track of some of the software, I have been installing, since I bootstrapped up a clean operating system. Much of this is open source, available for Unix (can you say AIX? cause I know you can say Solaris) also as in Linux (y'know like Ubuntu and Red Hat), but don't forget BSD is/was Unix too (like OpenBSD, my favourite FreeBSD and Mac OS X). Most of this software even runs on Windows, if you have the stomach for it, I have even been doing a little messing around on Vista in the last couple of weeks. You guessed it.. it sucks.
Feel free to add your favourite applications, that you think, I should download in the comments below.
I recommend all these fine pieces of software:
- Firefox with GoogleToolbar
- Adblock for Firefox
- OpenOffice.org Office Suite
- Fink
- aMSN, MSN Messenger or Adium.. I couldn't decide so I installed them all. In the end i will probably add Gaim too
- FlightGear open source flight simulator
- Chicken of the VNC
- Azureus bit torrent client
- GIMP graphics extraordinaire
- VLC for watching video in spite of my new love for Totem
- Alarm Clock Pro (I said I have a new job.. now I have to get up).
- SWF & FLV Player - what's that you say? Full Screen Leftytube, yup, watch flash full screen
- Bandwidth Usage Widget
- Google Earth
- Amarok - although it is still compiling, see more words about my love of Amarok here
- As usual, I am heavily reliant on web based applications GMail, Docs & Spreadsheets, Google, Blogger and Google Reader.
PS: Dontcha just love that Canada:
The Copyright Board of Canada issued a decision on private copying last Friday that set new levies for fixed recordable media, such as that found in portable MP3 players, and asserted that downloading copyrighted files from peer-to-peer networks does not break Canadian copyright law as long as the copying is done for private usage. - from DRM Watch
Labels: alternatives, anti-microsoft, anti-war, blogosphere, canada, democracy, internal, leftist content creation, link, macosx, nationalization, opinion, osx86, personal story, photoshop, tools, youtube
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The best of LeftyTube
http://leftytube.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
OTI hit 1000 unique visitors for the month of February last night. But, ultimately despite all my efforts to make this blog the better one, it is LeftyTube that gets all the hits. Maybe that's because I don't fill LeftyTube with prattle like this post. Ok, I know why it is, it's because of crooks and liars referring all that traffic.
Anyway, I have had half a dozen posts on the back-burner that haven't materialized in to full posts. Here are few in short form.
"Any truly effective senior manager and executives of a sizeable organization know they must delegate to, and trust, those managers who report to them in order to run an organization effectively. A general manager cannot double-check every activity and transaction a senior manager like Sharma undertakes." - Doug Ausman in an op-ed response in the Martlet in 2004.
I left the UVic student union before Vivek Sharma's reign of thievery. The links above tell a bit of the story about the financial disaster that the Student Union would become in the time after the three years of surplus that signified my involvement.
As the blogosphere argues our way against climate change and increased emissions I find myself extremely intrigued by the means of rhetoric employed.
I'm too lazy to do the kind of full rhetorical analysis I intended (as a post to both review basic rhetorical style and provide links for those arguing against climate change). Maybe it will happen sometime in the future.
I did note with incredible pleasure that the L'Alliance's Lights Out campaign was extremely successful in France. The campaign managed to reduce consumption of electricity by 1% during 5 minutes on February 1, 2007.
For other daily climate saving tips I recommend: CoolMove.org
The continuing unacceptable inequality between men and women will be the topic of a rant not yet written. This article in the Toronto Star highlights this on-going ridiculousness in Canadian Universities.
I have added a script to the blog margin that let's you read items I've read and intentionally shared. I'll try and keep them interesting.
Labels: alternatives, human rights abuse, internal, leftist content creation, youtube
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That's what a hit parade feels like when you are face down
http://leftytube.blogspot.com
Monday, February 19, 2007
Thanks to Crooks and Liars my other useful blog - Leftytube - got hit with a massive round of hits this morning.
Although LeftyTube isn't hosted on my home server like Obfuscated Thoughtlessness Inversed it still created a chain that overwhelmed my D-link router causing it to reset and come back up with the OTI server DHCPed to the wrong IP address. The result was OTI was down this morning for a few hours, third time in a week because of the same router. I guess I should fix that already.
On a positive note, the hits are up and the grail of 1,000 unique visitors is within reach this month.
This is in part because of OTI being added to Progressive Bloggers, Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, Sense of Irony, Tall Poppy Syndrome, Dipper Chick and as always Blogging Dippers Everywhere, Brine Bubble's blatant promotion and my favourite ping tool Ping-o-matic. Thanks!
Special thanks goes out to Blue Gal who arranged the anti-creationism hit parade in the first place.
Although LeftyTube isn't hosted on my home server like Obfuscated Thoughtlessness Inversed it still created a chain that overwhelmed my D-link router causing it to reset and come back up with the OTI server DHCPed to the wrong IP address. The result was OTI was down this morning for a few hours, third time in a week because of the same router. I guess I should fix that already.
On a positive note, the hits are up and the grail of 1,000 unique visitors is within reach this month.
This is in part because of OTI being added to Progressive Bloggers, Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, Sense of Irony, Tall Poppy Syndrome, Dipper Chick and as always Blogging Dippers Everywhere, Brine Bubble's blatant promotion and my favourite ping tool Ping-o-matic. Thanks!
Special thanks goes out to Blue Gal who arranged the anti-creationism hit parade in the first place.
Labels: internal, leftist content creation, link, opinion, tools
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Visits from the US Air Force make me wonder about US Military plans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Last night I posted about how I received visits last month from the Canadian Military. Tonight, I have the dubious honour of posting about a visit to this blog from a US Military computer/human operator.
I was hoping they were reading about how to flee war and go to Canada. But after reading the log-file I realized they were simply reading about being Welcomed to Canada.
Meanwhile, the US Military announced by declassifying a document that they were engaged in electronic disruption against their enemies, apparently including blogs like this one.
To quote from a BBC report:
I was hoping they were reading about how to flee war and go to Canada. But after reading the log-file I realized they were simply reading about being Welcomed to Canada.
Meanwhile, the US Military announced by declassifying a document that they were engaged in electronic disruption against their enemies, apparently including blogs like this one.
To quote from a BBC report:
The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks.
The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very seriously indeed in the Pentagon.Thanks to Blogging Change and Verbena 19 for the heads up.
Labels: anti-war, canada, green isn't just a colour it's an imperative, internal, leftist content creation, opinion, scary technology, spy-watch, tools
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1000 Unique remained beyond reach - thanks to those of you who did visit!
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Thanks to the 929 visitors who made this blog what it is this month. I failed to meet my 1000 unique visit dream, but each one of your unique visits means just as much to me as if I had. Your return visits not so much. Obfuscated Thoughtlessness Inversed had way more of those.. 2652 or an average of 2.85 visits per visitor.
I couldn't have done it with out you. I cherish your visits, especially from the several folks who work for the Department of National Defense, and the repeat visitors from Human Resources and Social Development Canada and even the one guy who visited once from the Government of Nova Scotia. At least the RCMP didn't visit this month, like they did last month. Then again I didn't make fun of the commissioner this month, like I did last month.
On the plus side staff at the Council of Canadians, War Amps of Canada, COPE 378, BCGEU, CBC, Sierra Club of BC, BC and Federal NDP Caucus and federal NDP staff all visited. I like being noticed by them. Also, those of you who I called idiots who then proved that you are fast learners, thanks to you too. The IE ratio dropped from nearly 50% to 38.3% and beyond that Firefox came in on the month at 39%-just slightly ahead. Yay!
On the corporate side of things, the coolest-non-ISP-.com-to-visit award goes to Agilent.com. Whereas the award for creepiest Human Resources/Evil doers inc. award goes to PSI Limited. May PSI never get asked to psych my brain out for corporate profit.. From the PSI website:
There isn't much difference between these two companies. .com's really aren't usually cool. After I looked up the anonymous IP of PSI's internet gateway, read their website and digested the above, I ran away shrieking like my dog after getting stung by the bee she just ate.
(Reality check: I wasn't actually shrieking and the dog usually only eats bees during the summer and then she kinda half-mumbles half cries, and that's the northern hemisphere summer some time away still, oh and the word just is somewhat of a loose time measurement. I suggest longitude and latitude for those of you who are into measurement. For regular readers, my dog, refers to the brown one you often see on this page in little photos. Alright this is getting way to random and nothing like a reality check, close bracket:).
True to my promise I will not post dates, times or actual IP addresses of these visits. Hopefully your network admins are not bored or crazy enough to pull up the logs to bust you for looking at my blog.
Ok, that's enough navel gazing. On to a new month and more near exponential growth in readership!
I couldn't have done it with out you. I cherish your visits, especially from the several folks who work for the Department of National Defense, and the repeat visitors from Human Resources and Social Development Canada and even the one guy who visited once from the Government of Nova Scotia. At least the RCMP didn't visit this month, like they did last month. Then again I didn't make fun of the commissioner this month, like I did last month.
On the plus side staff at the Council of Canadians, War Amps of Canada, COPE 378, BCGEU, CBC, Sierra Club of BC, BC and Federal NDP Caucus and federal NDP staff all visited. I like being noticed by them. Also, those of you who I called idiots who then proved that you are fast learners, thanks to you too. The IE ratio dropped from nearly 50% to 38.3% and beyond that Firefox came in on the month at 39%-just slightly ahead. Yay!
On the corporate side of things, the coolest-non-ISP-.com-to-visit award goes to Agilent.com. Whereas the award for creepiest Human Resources/Evil doers inc. award goes to PSI Limited. May PSI never get asked to psych my brain out for corporate profit.. From the PSI website:
International Leadership Assessment:
Assessing the competence of existing and potential international leaders contributes to both selection and development processes. In selection, assessment helps evaluate the suitability of leaders for particular assignments. In development, it helps identify areas of potential leadership growth and feeds into personal and career development processes. It can also contribute to succession planning. The tools used in assessment include PSi’s Standard and International TAISs (a psychometric profiling inventory) and our web-based International 360° and International Leadership 360° profiles, as well as other psychometric instruments.
There isn't much difference between these two companies. .com's really aren't usually cool. After I looked up the anonymous IP of PSI's internet gateway, read their website and digested the above, I ran away shrieking like my dog after getting stung by the bee she just ate.
(Reality check: I wasn't actually shrieking and the dog usually only eats bees during the summer and then she kinda half-mumbles half cries, and that's the northern hemisphere summer some time away still, oh and the word just is somewhat of a loose time measurement. I suggest longitude and latitude for those of you who are into measurement. For regular readers, my dog, refers to the brown one you often see on this page in little photos. Alright this is getting way to random and nothing like a reality check, close bracket:).
True to my promise I will not post dates, times or actual IP addresses of these visits. Hopefully your network admins are not bored or crazy enough to pull up the logs to bust you for looking at my blog.
Ok, that's enough navel gazing. On to a new month and more near exponential growth in readership!
Labels: annotation, bc blogs, internal, personal story, tools
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Only half the readers of this blog are idiots..
http://www.mozillafirefox.ca/
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
According, to intensive research done on you the reader only about 50% of you are idiots. Busy beaver stats created by Awstats show that exactly 49.7% of the hits on this blog were from people using Internet Explorer.
Now, I can forgive the 2.9% of you who are using Internet Explorer 7. You are clearly a thinking person, wrong in your ways, but a thinking person who has made a choice is sticking to it like a Liberal voter and upgraded recently to fend off the inevitable attacks from well publicized security holes and breaches.
But those 42% of you using Internet Explorer 6.... what are you thinking? You must just be lazy not as stupid as you appear. Maybe it is your employer. Are they making you use IE 6? Quit. Find a real job.
Luckily, I have a better solution for you Internet Explorer users that will smarten you right up.
It is free and better than smoked wild salmon... what are you waiting for. Don't be one of the idiot majority, be a part of the great minority. Download Firefox today.
Now, I can forgive the 2.9% of you who are using Internet Explorer 7. You are clearly a thinking person, wrong in your ways, but a thinking person who has made a choice is sticking to it like a Liberal voter and upgraded recently to fend off the inevitable attacks from well publicized security holes and breaches.
But those 42% of you using Internet Explorer 6.... what are you thinking? You must just be lazy not as stupid as you appear. Maybe it is your employer. Are they making you use IE 6? Quit. Find a real job.
Luckily, I have a better solution for you Internet Explorer users that will smarten you right up.
It is free and better than smoked wild salmon... what are you waiting for. Don't be one of the idiot majority, be a part of the great minority. Download Firefox today.
Labels: anti-microsoft, internal, opinion
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Funding a civil war in Palestinian controled territory
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/01/06/palestinians-hamas.html
Sunday, January 07, 2007
"Abbas also confirmed the United States is sending aid to boost the Palestinian security forces loyal to him. U.S. officials said Friday that President George W. Bush is asking Congress to provide $83 million US for those forces." CBC Online
When I wrote that the "Economic and Financial Blockade of the Palestinian people must be stopped" I wasn't calling for funding one side of a developing civil war.
Bush's decision to test the Democratic Party on the key question of the Palestinian people by requesting $83 million for Abbas's presidential military forces is a clear sign of Bush's continued contempt for any democratic outcomes in the middle east and possibly in the US. The timing is intriguing as the Democratic Party will be forced to quickly declare their position.
It is simply ridiculous to assert that a Hamas government is an ideal scenario for this territory, at this time. However, they won the election. Unlike in the United States where the executive is appointed by the President, in the Palestinian system the government reports to the legislature and is not led by the President Abbas. Where Bush is the commander in chief, no such clarity exists within the Palestinian authority. To fund an insurgent military against a democratic government in another territory is a path no democracy should go down; even though this will certainly not be the first time the United States has done this.
Given that Hamas has won a democratic election putting it in charge of the legislative and executive branches of government, to fund a military force led by Abbas is to encourage civil war against a democratic elected authority. This shortsighted policy can not be supported and I sincerely hope (but have little faith) that the Democrats turn down this new direction of the US Administration. It is very hard to know where the Democrats will go on this question, try this link to search the Democratic Party website for the Palestinian, you won't find much at all.
Here's also hoping that the strength of the opposition in the Canadian Parliament is enough to sink any plans Harper might have of following the Bush lead on this one. We'll have to watch this unfold.
Funding should be restored, a dialogue reopened, but monies flowing from other countries, as always should not be used to kill people or to destabilize what little democratic governance there is. No doubt this is a difficult delineation in this complex territory.
When I wrote that the "Economic and Financial Blockade of the Palestinian people must be stopped" I wasn't calling for funding one side of a developing civil war.
Bush's decision to test the Democratic Party on the key question of the Palestinian people by requesting $83 million for Abbas's presidential military forces is a clear sign of Bush's continued contempt for any democratic outcomes in the middle east and possibly in the US. The timing is intriguing as the Democratic Party will be forced to quickly declare their position.
It is simply ridiculous to assert that a Hamas government is an ideal scenario for this territory, at this time. However, they won the election. Unlike in the United States where the executive is appointed by the President, in the Palestinian system the government reports to the legislature and is not led by the President Abbas. Where Bush is the commander in chief, no such clarity exists within the Palestinian authority. To fund an insurgent military against a democratic government in another territory is a path no democracy should go down; even though this will certainly not be the first time the United States has done this.
Given that Hamas has won a democratic election putting it in charge of the legislative and executive branches of government, to fund a military force led by Abbas is to encourage civil war against a democratic elected authority. This shortsighted policy can not be supported and I sincerely hope (but have little faith) that the Democrats turn down this new direction of the US Administration. It is very hard to know where the Democrats will go on this question, try this link to search the Democratic Party website for the Palestinian, you won't find much at all.
Here's also hoping that the strength of the opposition in the Canadian Parliament is enough to sink any plans Harper might have of following the Bush lead on this one. We'll have to watch this unfold.
Funding should be restored, a dialogue reopened, but monies flowing from other countries, as always should not be used to kill people or to destabilize what little democratic governance there is. No doubt this is a difficult delineation in this complex territory.
Labels: anti-war, democracy, internal, leftist content creation, link, opinion, unfolding
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Updated template makes Obfuscated Thoughtlessness Inversed readable finally
http://blog.morganisageek.org/
Thursday, January 04, 2007
To mark the 50th post on this blog, I have finally sat down and made Obfuscated Thoughtlessness Inversed legible. My apologies to those of you who were forced to squint through the previous design to try and read what I was writing.
My initial tinkering with the Blogger template had the effect of loading the content on a little too strong and I haven't gotten around to fixing it until now.
The template changes include:
Remember:
My initial tinkering with the Blogger template had the effect of loading the content on a little too strong and I haven't gotten around to fixing it until now.
The template changes include:
- Increasing the font size of the headline on each article,
- Added a line to the article headline with a visible link to what the article is about,
- Changed the headline so it links to the individual article page,
- Moving the randomly generated image thumbnails to the bottom of posts from the top (really only affects the first post as they are still between each post),
- Adding a custom header to the blog with some random photos from a trip in the state of Victoria, Australia (mostly from the Great Ocean Road),
- Reducing the font size in the header,
- Removing the annoying blog description line (it did read: Specific thoughts I've encountered on the net... Occasionally, I'll even add incomplete ideas of my own - just to write them down.),
- Changed the font colours to a more uniform orange,
- Fixed the postings link, and
- Moving the gray background from behind the text to behind the side-bar.
- Updated the url to http://blog.morganisageek.org/ with the site feed found at http://blog.morganisageek.org/atom.xml, the old url will continue to work at http://morgan.is-a-geek.org/blog/,
- Linked in Technorati,
- Placed Adsense advertisements all over the page,
- Added the floating adsense advertisements in the bottom left-hand corner, and
- Added performancing.com advertisement.
Remember:
- there are varying shades of political opinion,
- one of the shadiest of these is the Liberals,
- an outspoken group on many subjects,
- 10 degrees to the left of centre in good times,
- 10 degrees to the right of centre if it affects them personally,
- so here then continues the lesson in safe logic, on to post number 51...
Labels: internal
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The basics.. the facts.. what is it.. how does it work?
http://blog.morganisageek.org/
Friday, December 08, 2006
Ok, I've been blogging for about a month now (the first post was November 8, 2006). It is time to look inward and discuss the blog itself.
In point form then:
-37 Posts in 30 days... topics range from a correct prediction that Stephane Dion would win before a single ballot was counted through to a list of free software to give to those you love and that's just this week.
-Created using the beta.blogger.com interface
-Hosted on my own server running FreeBSD and Apache. The site uses a default template from blogger-beta with my own PHP improvements.
-The advertisements are supplied by Google Adsense and have so far generated $8.44 with just 25 clicks (that works out to about: 34.7 cents per click). I am restricted by Google Adsense in a general way from encouraging you to click on the adds. However, if you like a product I'm sure the advertisers wouldn't mind if you took advantage of their advertising. Just don't do it repeatedly or you will get me in trouble, not make me rich. Yes the links to getting Firefox and the Google pack are paid ads. Doesn't mean I don't think you should get Firefox. It is way better than Internet Explorer (although version 7.0 is a vast improvement). I digress....
-morganisageek.org / morgan.is-a-geek.org has had 533 unique visitors since November 1, 2006. Also hosted on this server you will find: Ben Isitt | Our Paper | BC Info | MorganStewart.org | CUPE 374 | Pre-Register for the Canadian Do Not Call List | Hannah's Homes | Love Union Party | Get your firefox browser here and several other sites that are all logged separately. The average unique visitors to morgan.is-a-geek.org prior to this blog's existence was around 110 a month. The top pre-blog month was 226 unique visitors in January 2006. Robotic visits (ie. googlebot) have of course been exempted from this list.
-Visits have predominantly come from North America and Australia, however, there has been at least one visit from each of: United Kingdom, Argentina, Turkey, Netherlands, Mexico, Hungary, France, Croatia, Greece, India, Colombia, Brazil, Poland, Belarus, Singapore, Italy, Belgium, South Africa, Portugal, Hong Kong, Germany, Sweden and Japan.
-The photos on this blog have all come from scenes that either myself or my partner Andrea have been at in the last few years. However, many different people have contributed them including many family and friends. Some of the best photos come from Andrea's 5 year-old niece. They are generally recognizable by the angle. Don't copy the photos without permission.
-Photos are randomly selected each time you visit using a php script. Additionally, they are not available by search engine so don't go looking for the random photo you liked from a previous visit. You get what you got while your here.
-Posts appear to be mostly semi-political-mostly-obscure rants. I didn't know what I would put on here when I started it.. so you may find the content continues to change.
-The top referring sites include infoBC.info, the NDP Blog role, Brine Bubble, Paranoid Left-Wing Ranting and of course Google and Google's Blogsearch. Myspace and Friendster have also contributed a couple of hits. I'm not sure why Progressive Bloggers haven't added this blog to their blog roll yet, but I look forward to any traffic that arrives once they do. BC Bloggers did it today, but it hasn't generated any hits.
-Reflectively, I can say my writing hasn't improved. I seem to be writing in first draft mode and publishing without a second read. Coming back 2 hours to 2 days later and correcting a half dozen mistakes, giving up and then wondering why I posted the crap in the first place.
-I certainly haven't managed to draw any rave reviews or critiques. A total of only 4 comments have been posted.
A final cautionary note, I am here for the good times and probably not for a long-time. If I get busy, say if a federal election is called or meaningful employment comes along, I will probably stop the posting. I am also here at Shaw's whim. If they change their home service policy you may find I disappear quickly. I certainly can't afford to professionally host this blog and relocating it to a free server such as blogger.com would take the fun out of running all sorts of test projects on the visitors.
That being said, I should at this time include a brief privacy notice. Visits to this blog will be recorded. The log files are standard Apache log files - plus a little geo script. Logged information is:
a. the web browser and operating system you are using: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
b. the site that sent you here:
c. when you came and your fully qualified domain name
d. where you were when you visited
e. this information will not be disclosed to anyone, short of it being hacked into, unless the law says I have to. In which case I will do my damnedest to fight that disclosure and to warn everyone that it is being disclosed.
f. I may delete these files completely if I believe they are risk of disclosure and it is lawful for me to do so.
g. None of this information should be enough to allow anyone to identify you personally on its own. However, your employer likely keeps logs that combined with the information at my end could easily cost you your job. I'm not that vicious (although, I am tempted given the number of supposedly non-partisan Federal Government departments that keep looking referred through from other partisan sites). Keep this in mind while browsing at work.
In point form then:
-37 Posts in 30 days... topics range from a correct prediction that Stephane Dion would win before a single ballot was counted through to a list of free software to give to those you love and that's just this week.
-Created using the beta.blogger.com interface
-Hosted on my own server running FreeBSD and Apache. The site uses a default template from blogger-beta with my own PHP improvements.
-The advertisements are supplied by Google Adsense and have so far generated $8.44 with just 25 clicks (that works out to about: 34.7 cents per click). I am restricted by Google Adsense in a general way from encouraging you to click on the adds. However, if you like a product I'm sure the advertisers wouldn't mind if you took advantage of their advertising. Just don't do it repeatedly or you will get me in trouble, not make me rich. Yes the links to getting Firefox and the Google pack are paid ads. Doesn't mean I don't think you should get Firefox. It is way better than Internet Explorer (although version 7.0 is a vast improvement). I digress....
-morganisageek.org / morgan.is-a-geek.org has had 533 unique visitors since November 1, 2006. Also hosted on this server you will find: Ben Isitt | Our Paper | BC Info | MorganStewart.org | CUPE 374 | Pre-Register for the Canadian Do Not Call List | Hannah's Homes | Love Union Party | Get your firefox browser here and several other sites that are all logged separately. The average unique visitors to morgan.is-a-geek.org prior to this blog's existence was around 110 a month. The top pre-blog month was 226 unique visitors in January 2006. Robotic visits (ie. googlebot) have of course been exempted from this list.
-Visits have predominantly come from North America and Australia, however, there has been at least one visit from each of: United Kingdom, Argentina, Turkey, Netherlands, Mexico, Hungary, France, Croatia, Greece, India, Colombia, Brazil, Poland, Belarus, Singapore, Italy, Belgium, South Africa, Portugal, Hong Kong, Germany, Sweden and Japan.
-The photos on this blog have all come from scenes that either myself or my partner Andrea have been at in the last few years. However, many different people have contributed them including many family and friends. Some of the best photos come from Andrea's 5 year-old niece. They are generally recognizable by the angle. Don't copy the photos without permission.
-Photos are randomly selected each time you visit using a php script. Additionally, they are not available by search engine so don't go looking for the random photo you liked from a previous visit. You get what you got while your here.
-Posts appear to be mostly semi-political-mostly-obscure rants. I didn't know what I would put on here when I started it.. so you may find the content continues to change.
-The top referring sites include infoBC.info, the NDP Blog role, Brine Bubble, Paranoid Left-Wing Ranting and of course Google and Google's Blogsearch. Myspace and Friendster have also contributed a couple of hits. I'm not sure why Progressive Bloggers haven't added this blog to their blog roll yet, but I look forward to any traffic that arrives once they do. BC Bloggers did it today, but it hasn't generated any hits.
-Reflectively, I can say my writing hasn't improved. I seem to be writing in first draft mode and publishing without a second read. Coming back 2 hours to 2 days later and correcting a half dozen mistakes, giving up and then wondering why I posted the crap in the first place.
-I certainly haven't managed to draw any rave reviews or critiques. A total of only 4 comments have been posted.
A final cautionary note, I am here for the good times and probably not for a long-time. If I get busy, say if a federal election is called or meaningful employment comes along, I will probably stop the posting. I am also here at Shaw's whim. If they change their home service policy you may find I disappear quickly. I certainly can't afford to professionally host this blog and relocating it to a free server such as blogger.com would take the fun out of running all sorts of test projects on the visitors.
That being said, I should at this time include a brief privacy notice. Visits to this blog will be recorded. The log files are standard Apache log files - plus a little geo script. Logged information is:
a. the web browser and operating system you are using: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
b. the site that sent you here:
c. when you came and your fully qualified domain name
d. where you were when you visited
e. this information will not be disclosed to anyone, short of it being hacked into, unless the law says I have to. In which case I will do my damnedest to fight that disclosure and to warn everyone that it is being disclosed.
f. I may delete these files completely if I believe they are risk of disclosure and it is lawful for me to do so.
g. None of this information should be enough to allow anyone to identify you personally on its own. However, your employer likely keeps logs that combined with the information at my end could easily cost you your job. I'm not that vicious (although, I am tempted given the number of supposedly non-partisan Federal Government departments that keep looking referred through from other partisan sites). Keep this in mind while browsing at work.
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