As a professional web designer I’m constantly on the lookout for good design, creative design and things I can learn from Silverpoint: Web Solutions for Schools is about as brilliant a design as any I have come across (and I have come across a lot). It was created by Shaun Inman, who has already proven his standings in the web development industry with such amazing designs as his Cereal Bowl design for www.csszengarden.com.
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If You Hated Blogging, But Had a Blog
If you hated blogging but had a blog you’d have this blog. Of course if you neglected your blog for more valuable pursuits you’d have this blog. And of course if you had a witty sense of humor but were extremely hooked on George Bush, you’d have this blog. And if you were an apiring jazz musician/programmer, you’d have this blog. And if you were me – you’d have this blog.
A Rolling Stone Attends No Mass
I’m pretty sure that’s how things’ll be the next two Sundays. We’ll miss church (not Mass, but I had to go for the pun) for two weeks because of travelling to Indiana. We’ll be leaving tomorrow morning and then we’ll be coming back to CO the following weekend.
Today the females of the household will be heading to Juan Costello Penney’s Studio Eportraito [J.C. Penney’s Portrait Studio] to get pictures taken. Hopefully the folks there are a little bit smarter and faster than the folks we ran into the last time in Texas. Otherwise we’ll have to change over to Juan Valdez’s Cafe and Photographia.
Weblog Tools Collection
A good resource for information on blogging tools in general and WordPress things in general: Weblog Tools Collection. They don’t have StatTraq on the list yet, but I’m trying to get ahold of the author to see if he’ll add it to the list.
Twenty-One and a Quarter
I have put in twenty-one and a quarter hours in this week for work and it’s only Tuesday. I’m pooped, I’m going to bed and I am sure others have worked longer, harder hours than I have. However, I also have managed to clock 12 hours in the last 48 hours of family time. In short that means that I’ve logged about 14 hours of ‘other time’ somewhere in there sleeping (or not since Abby’s been waking up a lot) and converting oxygen into carbon-dioxide. I’m a busy guy, but I love it. Beats the snot out of unemployment.
In comparison Jessica, Kelsey and Kristin (in order of age) have watched seven episodes of Alias, watched ‘Mean Girls’ and sat on their buns eating bon-bons in that time 😉
Cute Abby Quote
Abby said this morning, “I’m a business girl.”
And then Kristin (or Kelsey) asked, “Are you getting married?”
“Yes”
“Who are you going to marry?”
“I marry Becky.”
[Becky is her aunt who recently got married.] Funny, yet sad to a father’s ears.
StatTraq Users
As people use StatTraq I’ll be linking to them – It’s pretty cool to see folks actually getting some use out of it.
Let me know if you’re using the software and I’ll blog your site as well.
Note: I am not responsible for content on these sites, just the statistics application they use.
Contribute Tech Books to your Local Library
If you’ve finished using a tech book that is new enough to be relevant and you’re done with it, consider donating it to your local library. I just visited my local library, and while it’s a nice library their tech section is way outdated. Find your local library and donate your tech books.
StatTraq Beta 0.1 c
Beta c is available. Instructions for the installer were corrected, new user agents added to the list of user agents to be reported. See the screenshots below.
StatTraq for WordPress tracks public activity of WordPress and reports
- Hits
- Number of Unique PHP sessions
- Page Views
- IP Addresses (includes link to ARIN Who Is?)
- Browser
- Referrer
- Search Terms from major search engines
- Bar graphs generated for some of the reports
Summary View of StatTraq
Hit view of StatTraq with bar graph
Hit view of StatTraq with line graph
Happy Birthday Erin Nuzzi!
Erin Nuzzi, one of our fabulous friends from ‘way back’ turns [number withheld out of respect for the not as young as they used to be] today! We love you Erin and can’t wait to see you again!
The ‘Pertermans’