Yawn

OK, since she is in another state for yet another week, I have way too much time to waste. I've been spending it surfing through Live Journal. Seems reasonable to me.

Apparently, there is some requirement to post a long, interesting only to you, rambling kind of online conversation log in your journal every so often. I'm not sure, but it seems to be mainly observed by the high-school and college-age folks, with an occasional older person posting. Um, why?

I would think that the person on the other end of that private chat usually doesn't expect you to archive and share that conversation with all and sundry. Perhaps I'm wrong in some cases, but I'd be willing to bet that most of the folks who have posted 300 lines from an AIM log file didn't ask if it was ok to share.

If you shared someone's personal snailmail, or recorded a phone conversation for the amusement of others, wouldn't you find that rude? Are there different standards of civilized conduct online compared to the real world?

Do I need to get some sleep?

Bad spellers of the world, untie!

To further prove my propellerhead status, I've been playing with my stats output. Yep, Added a graph and still made the HTML smaller. Pruned down the list of requested files, and added a graph showing where people are coming from.

Here's a shocker: most folks are coming from LiveJournal to my site. A few months ago, most of my visitors came from Winfiles, but CNET has killed the site and not reinstated all the files that were listed there. So, my Linux Theme and startup screen have not been getting a lot of hits lately. Tux is lonely.

On my personal stats output (still huge, yes Corto), I find that the most popular PART of LJ that visitors are arriving from is (drum roll please)( Read more... )