My ‘People Visited From’ block (courtesy VisitorLocation) has been up for a little while now showing where the last 6 or 7 people have surfed in from since the last rebuild. Some of them are from pretty far away places: Australia, Iran, Peru, The Netherlands. Most are from the US. So it makes me wonder…how do people make their way here? How did they find this little blog of mine and what are they looking for that brings them here? I see a lot of Google and Yahoo! referrals in the logs. What do they think of what they find here? Not many of them leave comments, so they’re all just silent visitors.
More Blogshares
Hey, somebody over at Geek Rants bought shares in my blog!
So what happens if somebody comes along and snaps up a majority or all the shares in your blog? Do they own your blog? Does that give them decision making power over your blog or what you write in it? Do you have to have shareholder meetings?
IoP Book Sale
If you’re in the market for some physics related books, the Institute of Physics is having a huge book sale. Books are discounted up to 75%, so if they have a text you’ve been eyeing for a while, but have been putting off because it’s too expensive, see if it’s one the books on sale. The list of books sorted by title (which I’m browsing through now) is 18 pages long, so there are plenty of books to choose from. Lots of proceedings, lots of hardcore physics books, and a bunch of general interest books. The sale ends Dec 31, so go check it out!
What are these people looking for?
Browsing through my MT activity log, I notice some people searching my blog for some unusual items. Here’s a small selection of some of the search words being entered.
- dragonball
- gundam (what’s a gundam?)
- jawn
- milkshake
- bling bling
- grundy puffs
- cheese monkey (huh?)
- sphyncter (sic)
- godzilla
- neng
- clitoris
Leaves me wondering what it was these people are looking for here, and how the heck they got the impression that it could be found here?
of course, now that I’ve listed all these words, it should only be a matter of time before my blog starts showing up on search engines, which will lead to more people coming here searching for strange things that will only show up here because I’ve posted about people searching for strange things.
On another note, MT-Blacklist seems to be working as expected weeding out comment spam here. I probably don’t get nearly as much as other more visited sites, but it has blocked 4 attempts since I installed it about a week ago. Hooray!
Eudora 6.0’s new SpamWatch and POPFile are also cutting down significantly the amount of spam my eyeballs get subjected to.
More Pumpkins
More pumpkins to enjoy. These ones are pretty cool and creative.
Found at The Right Half of My Brain.