F--- me!

Number 1 for "web developer london."

In April 2003 I was third, rereading my post about that prompted me to try again, smilingly thinking I would be like last or something.

Now that's some good SEO juju. Completely accidental as well. As clearly shown by the fact that I'm 10th for "london web developer."

I just made a potentially life changing decision. I don't want to let the cat out of the bag at this point, but look for more information on "Project O" in the coming weeks. Yikes!

Wow, Google Analytics has really landed. It seems every blog I've visited this week has a GA post at the top, and I've visited a lot of diverse blogs in the last week. Is this web analytics coming of age? It blows every other free solution out of the water completely, that's for sure, so a lot more people are going to start tracking a lot more stuff. Damn, maybe even I'll use it :-).

Look what happened to Blanket the other day:

I had to take it offline, it was killing the server. I haven't got around to looking to see what caused such a spike, but it's definitely got something to do with search engines. I have moved the results page to a sub-url (/site/) and banned search engines from spidering that URL. It seems to have worked.

Hmmm, on second thoughts, a quick grep | awk | sort | uniq at the log files makes it look like all 1.2m of the hits in that spike came from 130.94.202.16, which is just a plain old box in Verio's network somewhere, one that is now down. Seems like whoever they are/were they requested some 812,802 unique pages through the blanket, some of them up to 300 times. Either they had a sudden Johnny-5 like thirst for knowledge or there's something going on...

I think I worked it out today. I was in discussion with JC and with a couple of guys we got talking to in a pub in Southwark. I made the assertion that all the protesters at the pre-war protest and tomorrow's protest can't simply be anti-war. War is a fact of life today, as hateful and as shockingly horrible as it is, it happens a lot. All too much. No, I think that the protesters are out because they know that as much as Bush protests his innocence and his mission to spread democracy and peace, he's lying. The protesters know that there are many things he could be doing to make the world a fairer and happier place, but he just isn't. Iraq is a stupid war, but what makes it stupid is that there are so many countries that are commiting injustices and crimes that are just as horrible, but they get away with it! Israel is an example, with it's annexing of territory belonging to Libya and Lebanon, China is another. These are examples of many countries with terrible oppressive and also expansionist regimes. It's because Bush really doesn't care that people are protesting today.

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