Cool photos and free stuff
I was going ahead and updating some stuff today after all, when I ran across a series of really nice photos sent to me by a reader. One of them was not very useful, but too cool, so I came upon an idea. I'll make it a wallpaper:
Just click (or right click and save, as you see fit) the above image. I have decided to only provide the one (2048 wide, so plenty big), and you can let it scale, or resize it. Email me (since this isn't really a blog so you can't respond, though I might change that sometime here) if this is annoying and maybe I'll make several sizes.
Since I am asking for donations, and have T-shirts for sale, I guess I should be selling these for some nominal fee. I might in the future, but all my best photography is by readers. Since I don't own it, it's hard to justify selling it off. I want to make sure everyone is still happy with sending me photos; it's your information that helps make this site.
I'll probably make a few more of these over time, as I run across cool images. Keep your eye here.
shoobe01 on 03.01.09 @ 03:08 PM CST [link]
More Bandwidth Again
For a few hours last night the site went down due to, again, exceeding it's allowable bandwidth. Seems the anti-hotlinking had very little effect, and it really is all direct traffic.
It's also very intense usage. My workplace is very jealous. For any of you who run websites, or do SEO work for them, here's some basics. Last month:
12,830 unique visitors
60,667 page views
Average time on site is an astonishing 4:28. That is unheard of within my knowledge. Even for other informational sites, 2-3 minutes is worth celebrating. And even more amazingly, new visitors continues to be over 75%. And while 70% of the traffic is from the US, visitors just this month are from 117 other countries.
So, I have gone ahead and (I think, their site is bad) upgraded from 12 to 30GB of transfer every month. This should cover us for at least a year I hope.
I also want to thank everyone who has donated or purchased products. That helps a lot with these fees, and has also made me guilty enough that even though I am stupid-busy I will get around to answering the email backlog (hopefully today) and try to set a more regular schedule to continue improving the site. I know there are still several guns for which I have some information, but have not taken the time to parse it out meaningfully and get it on the site.
shoobe01 on 03.01.09 @ 09:07 AM CST [link]
