Mara's weblog

Comments are off temporarly - I need some time to test my new comment script. The change is caused by the amount of spam I need to delete from comments.

November's comming to an end, what means I'm going to go back to writing for my blog. Reason why November why it was as everyone can see is simple and shown below.

Now back to new, shiny, interesting topics. Like KDE 3.5...

The fact, that most hits coming from search engines are from Google is nothing I could be suprised of. What's much more interesting is the most popular search word used. Security? Networking? Linux? No. It's 'torrenta' (more than 10 percent in both May and June). Most people searching for the term come from Poland (they're using google.pl). 'torrenta' doesn't mean 'torrents'. In fact, I don't understand why so many people search for it. It's worth noting that I wrote about torrent site twice.

I've just added page for KDevelop tips. For now there's one about creating .so libraries with Automake Manager.

I like browsing my site stats. There are many interesting things which, I think, show some more general tendencies. My site is small, so I need to be careful with generalizations. I will try to be in a number of short pieces about intersting things I found.

Today about browser statistics. in the persiod March-June the site's running, Firefox is no 1. Stats are by hit, not by user. No suprise here, because that's the browser I use. Especially in March and April, when the number of daily hits was low.

When we move to May, things become more interesting. MSIE takes first place. MSIE vs Firefox is approx 50 to 40. At that time I was thinking that it will continue this way. My own visits became less important.

At the beggining of June it was the same. But overall, Firefox won 40 to 35. Also, Opera (don't use it, so no my visits for sure; also not from one IP, but from many) share was 15 percent.

July is similar to June, so far. Firefox-Opera-MSIE ratio is 50:22:20 (yes, that's right, more visits with Opera than MSIE).

The number of visits is not that high so the stats mean something about the real usage. Many hits come from Google. That makes the whole things interesting, because Google's used by general audience. The results are biased by the subjects I write about. There are suprises, but maybe next time...

I was thinking about a different news today (like Linux desktop), but there are important things: no epatents. My main page is also changed.

Update: Index page link changed.

Short note: I've added 'blogs i read' category to the blog sidebar (on the right). Currently there's only one link, more will come.

There were no interesting jokes on April 1 this year, only tdt.org.pl (but it was published earlier, in fact) and Flash version of news site 7thguarda.

Less orginal ones: Microsoft bought Linux (in Polish), EU bans Mac and UN closes the Internet.

As usual, there's a big choice of links at Slashdot.

Comments seem to work in both blog versions and with the right style.

I'm fighting with comments today. It seems that they're working, but there are still small issues (styles, default pages etc).

CGI Comment is not that easy, many values (filenames, directories, styles) are hardcoded and it requires much time to change all of them (and do it correctly).

I hope I'll manage to finish it in the weekend.

That's first entry in my blog. What will be it about? I plan to include my comments and opinions about things I've seen or read, usually those from the IT world.

I plan to have two versions of the blog: one in Polish and one in English.They won't be the same, but similar.

See you!