Dottie

To my surprise, this blog is getting more hits through image searches for Dorothy Parker. She has by far surpassed Antonio Bourdain as the 'hit-magnet" of this blog-site. This... 41 years after her death and 70 odd years after her heydays of the 1920's through to the 1940's.

Some of Dotties Witticisms

1. If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
2.This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
3.That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
4.Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
5.Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Antonio Bourdain III

From the information provided by Sitemeter, I've noticed that the vast majority of my casual visitors from afar afield as Slovenia, Spain or America, chance upon the blog after searching for "Antonio Bourdain". This probably means that there must be many, many searches for this cool dude.

Google Antonio Bourdain

Did you know that if you googled Antonio Bourdain, top of the list is my post of the 17th of May? How did that happen, It's even ahead of Tony's own blog!!! 

Now that's cool!!!

Counters

Having started this blog, I've often wondered if there were people reading it as there were not many comments left. Apart from the few people who spoke to me personally about what they read, there was no other indication of the presence of visitors to the blog. Someone then suggested that I install a counter to the blog. So I looked at that idea, investigated a little, and on the 20th of July, I activated "Analytics" on the blogsite. Further research showed that there were other programmes available, and as they were free I then attached "sitemeter" on the 7th of August 2008.

Both programmes not only allowed me to keep track of the number of visitors, but also other characteristics like, location, browsers used, time on site but not who was actually visiting. This because most surfers use dynamic IPs which are assigned every time they log on the web. Fixed IP users are identified, however those are few and far between.

Analytics provides lots of detailed information, however it is very difficult to trace the traits to each individual user. Sitemeter however, displays each user and their traits individually.

So, with Analytics, it will display that 20 visitors used Firefox as a browser; while sitemeter will display, say, 50 visitors of which 20 of them would list Firefox as the browser used. ( I would have to count up the 20 visitors individually) 

Well... enough technicalities!! So what has these counters shown?

According to Analytics, since the 20th of July, I've had 120 visitors (including my visits) to my site, of which 52 are "absolutely unique" visitors.

There have been visitors from 18 countries; including Peru in the West to Japan in the East; Argentina in the South to Moscow in the North.

With sitemeter, I was able to identify a visitor from Flushing, New York who visited the blog after googling "Antonio Bourdain". I wonder??..... could this be a visit from Tony, after a personal vanity search?

So the next time you surf the web, please note... Big Brother may be watching!! 

Antonio Bourdain is over 40 and Cool!

                                                So who's that cool dude.

As I sit here in the middle of the night awaken by a strained muscle and "Ghandi's Revenge" from a Tandoori dinner; lamenting over this over 40's syndrome; I happen to turn on the telly and watch a grey haired dude para-gliding over some hills in Argentina. Damn! I hate Antonio Bourdain. How dare he be over 40 and look so cool!! There is hope for us, over 40's yet!! 

Hell! I need to get a that ear-ring now!