Stan’s Obligatory Blog

We went to see “Terminator 3” today. It was entertaining in the usual way. This was also one of our rare trips into Old Town Pasadena, so afterward we had dinner at Cafe Bizou.

Here are some recent examples of Lucinda’s artwork. She made these today and put them in a little envelope for us.

This week we rented “Hairspray” for Lucinda. She’s watched it at least six or seven times so far. She likes the dancing, but we had to explain what was going on in the story, since she didn’t know what ‘segregation’ was.

I should have done this last week…

I put one of those little online poll thingies on the dot-com album page. I’ve noticed that when people post the link to my album on a page that allows feedback, there is often a debate about is-this-funny-or-sad. So a poll is just natural. The poll is here.

There is another rush on the web server today. Not as big as last week’s but still it’s amusing. The links generating it are:

http://www.browsertune.com/flanga/hotspots.htm
http://www.canada.com/technology/webjunkie

The traffic from these two is running just about neck-and-neck. In addition, there are some other new links, but not generating significant traffic:

http://www.tangmonkey.com/features/linkarc.php
http://fugitivealien.com/
http://www.simiandesign.com/blog-fu/
http://www.jm3.net/linkworld

More traffic today. We got a link from http://www.fajaf.com/lankarkiv.html. I don’t know what language it is, but a lot of people must read it. Other new links include:

http://www.halfbakery.com/user/bristolz
http://sablog.com
http://www.scriptfurnace.com
http://www.calpundit.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1539

Lucinda had a sleepover with Aunt Maggi this weekend. This was nice, since we got to spend some quiet couple time at home. And we also got to go out to a party for the first time in months.

And the traffic is finally dying down on our web server. Check out the graph of our network traffic for the last three weeks.

Lucinda had a sleep-over with Aunt Maggi this weekend. The went to the pool, and visited with Grandma and Grandpa.

The traffic is continuing to die down. We picked up a few more links, but no big network-busters. Still, our network traffic did take a jump just after 14:00 today. This appears to be from the link from mikeslist.com, which also puts out an email newsletter with links.

The count now stands at 3889 visits from the link from http://www.metafilter.com yesterday. Our outbound bandwidth was completely full all morning yesterday.

This morning, traffic took off again when we were linked from http://www.bbspot.com at about 05:00PDT. This surge is not quite as big as yesterday’s, and our outbound traffic has only been running about 80% of capacity. Still, the bbspot.com link has been driving the surge today. The visitor count from that link currently stands at 1163.

Besides this, we’ve been linked by a bunch more sites: