Month: July 2010

Privyet Moskva!!

I recently purchased the Site Analytics tool from my hosting company. It’s a cool product, delivers tons of reports, graphs and etc.

I’m regularly checking the top visitors report. It feels like a nice game between countries and cities, and the result is quite interesting. Moscow is smashing in the competition!!

Do I have a secret society regularly stalking my web page in Moscow?

California is also quite high, but the main reason is the San Jose IP addresses that my colleagues and I get in the office.

And unfortunately, Istanbul (and also the rest of Turkey) is way behind in competition.

How to be Good?

Here’s an interesting section from Nick Hornby’s “How to be Good”:

“This is what it feels like: you walk into a room and the door locks behind you and you spend a little while panicking, looking around for a key or a window or something, and then when you realize that there’s no way out, you start to make the best of what you’ve got. You try out the chair, and you realize that it’s actually not comfortable, and there’s a TV, and a couple of books, and there’s a fridge stocked with food. You know, how bad can it be? And me asking for a divorce was the panic, but very soon I get to the stage of looking around what I’ve got. And what I’ve got turns out to be two lovely kids, a nice house, a good job, a husband who doesn’t beat me and presses all the right buttons on the lift… I can do this, I think, I can live this life.”

Consolidation

Having spent the last year of my work life focusing on three magic words: Consolidation, Virtualization and Automation, i asked to myself – why I don’t apply this to my life as well? :p

So I started with Consolidation.

There’s a nice trick of WordPress. You can add a new post, and change the date of it to a previous date. For example, I can add this blog entry, and set it as if it’s been posted in 1965! That’s good isn’t it? Then I decided to consolidate all my old blogs on emregirici.com by copy pasting every former blog post with its original date.

All the posts from 2009 and backwards are from my blogspot and msn space pages, and are in Turkish. So if there’s something interesting for you, and you don’t understand, just use Google Translate or ask me 🙂