Situation Report Jan 2006

Well first of all greetings and welcome to all the people who are now reading this from www.irishblogs.ie and www.planetoftheblogs.com. They basically aggregate the latest posts from all submitted blogs created or maintained by people from or in Ireland, which I'm sure is handy for folk with a broad range of interests. As well as that I was listed on the Blogger.com start page on Jan 5th which earned me a few hits. Anything that makes me more famous and gets me more attention is good yes?

I got an E-mail at the weekend telling me that I've not published statistical data in over two months! Since that's one more E-mail asking me to publish data than E-Mail's asking me not to publish data, here it is:

Here's the Country Share graph for the last 100 visitors. The US (including quite a lot of hits from all branches of the military) has taken the lead and responsible for almost half my hits, Ireland and the UK hold exactly a quarter of all hits each.

Firefox has risen in popularity from 28.57% in November to 30% as of today.

I was also asked what I was currently watching, reading or playing, and told that other blogs have that information updated regularly on them, so I've added all that data to the sidebar to your right.

I'm told that 2500 hits in less than 4 months is very good and is probably attributed to my popular topics which show up in search engines. Some visitors so far this year arrived by putting the following terms into their search engines:

• how much does a whopper cost
• "my dad is bruce lee" lyrics
• mummy iii (someone in Peru)
• hans zimmer
• xxx whopper
• Hemel Hampstead (Herdfordshire Co.Council still seem to be researching Hemel)
• Ed Harris
• Marsoc (the new US Marine Corps Special Operations Command)
• eminem - feck (my sentiments exactly, but I'd have said "Eminem - Fuck")
• picture of a colonel (I'm sure they found what they were looking for- Remember: Signed Photographs of me are available on request)
• cjcs pete (He's General Pace to you sonny)
• rachel mcadams
• padjo junkbox (must have picked up on a comment left by Cubaboy)
• ciaran creedon (you forgot to bookmark didn't you)
• peanut butter girlfriend dead
• my ipod has frozen after being dropped
  
• underworld evolution walther (Selene's gun is a Walther P99 with a stainless steel slide, a gorgeous weapon, but I prefer the matt black James Bond version which I carry as my personal sidearm- the benefit of being on detached service)
  

Most amusing is that someone in Lancashire, England came here to find where Hemel was by asking google: where is hemel hampstead.

There's been almost a two dozen hits from various states in the US with variations on searches for the theme for E-Ring and the X-Men 3 trailer, obviously hot stuff, and disturbingly a Student at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland (where Colonel Creedon himself earned his commission) came here to learn about the New Secnav!

Here's the best one however: For some bizarre reason I can't possibly figure out was the American looking for "johnasson panties". I'm left wondering did he just want a picture or the actual items themselves? Well I'm sorry mate; Scarlett didn't leave them here last night so she must have taken them with her this morning...