Link of the Day [C’est fini!]

broderic on April 15, 2009

There’s no need to post another lotd. You’ve got three hundred and sixty-five of these. Search back through my archives and find something. I’m hoping you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. I’m hoping you’ve at least visited one (if not all) of the links. Some were, admittedly, lame, and some were frakking awesome. If you clicked, you would’ve found out which were which.

But it’s all over now. I’m done. Something I did most every day for a year. I can tell you it was tough. Thanks for visiting.

Now I have to find something else to keep my blog going. Hmmm. I should resurrect my Saturday Evening Posts!

There is no link here!

Repost?

broderic on January 31, 2009

Found this in my Notpad on Yahoo. I don’t know if I’ve posted this before. Anyone want to check?

I need to learn to cook. I saw Racheal Ray do this barbecued succotash which I have a few of the ingredients already in my cupboard. She’s one of my favorites. Thirty minute meals! She makes it look so easy that I can delude myself into thinking that I could make some of her recipes.

I also love watching Good Eats. Alton Brown is kind of a nerdy chef who treats cooking liking writing a program. He makes things so scientific that it makes me want to cook.

Actually, I rarely have the chance to cook. Keep stopping by mom’s. I need to learn to cook, so that when I get a girlfriend, I can cook for her.

UPDATE: Yes.

2002

broderic on January 25, 2009

This is BrowserMetric’s 2002nd post. I would of congratulated myself on the 2000th post, but forgot.

It’s been a quick run up to this many number because of starting my lotd and qotd posts. They’re hard to keep up and at times difficult to find something interesting for them. If you indulge me for a little while they’ll keep on coming for a little more time coming. I know for sure that they’ll be stopping though, but that time is coming in the future.

I had done this post to once again break up the monotony of seeing the lotd and qotd in my RSS readers. This makes it look almost human now.

The 2nd annual BrowserMetrics Oscar pool is going to be starting. I’ve upped the number of prizes. So look for the opening post soon.

Thanks for your support over these 2002 posts.

More Browser Metrics for BrowserMetrics

broderic on January 1, 2009

Thanks to all my readers for making 2008 a big hit. You make reading these browser metrics for BrowserMetrics fun to do.

The first chart is monthly visits. The numbers are reasonable for such a low read blog.

browser metrics monthly 2008

Here’s the daily scribble that shows you the average volume I’ve been getting all year:

browser metrics daily 2008

Finally, a year by year comparison. The trend is going up!!!

browser metrics yearly

Link of the Day [12.11.08]

broderic on December 11, 2008

Here’s a first — a link of the day that doesn’t take you anywhere. Of course, if you had a problem with any previous links of the day, then you may have thought that those took you no where, and you have already seen a BrowserMetrics link of the day that doesn’t take you anywhere, special. But I promise this link doesn’t take you anywhere of note, because it ends up at some domain name seller who is parking this domain name waiting for someone, maybe me, stupid enough to buy this domain. Get me Homer Simpson.

http://www.interslice.com/

Browser Metrics

broderic on November 21, 2008

Browser metrics @ browsermetrics

So, I’m creeping up the hit chart on google for the search term “browser metrics.” You can find the fake browser metrics at mozilla.org’s wiki. They only showed up several years after I had coined the term. They are stealing my thunder which I should’ve trademarked or copyrighted a long time ago.

BTW, the story of the name BrowserMetrics comes from my time at Shore Studios. I was sitting around joking with my co-worker AT about how to know that the web sites we were building were optimized to load quick. Was the jpgs and gifs and html we writing going to be quick when served up? Remember this was the time of the ubiquitous dial-up and probably around the 24.4 to 56k crossover. I hit on a scheme to figure out the load time of pages. I was developing some mathematical formulas to describe each and every element on the page and how they contributed to load times. But then I quit that job and the internet became all about the broadband, so now its just the name of the blog.

New Blogger Comments System — FAIL!

broderic on October 23, 2008

TheSeed had to post to his more hoighty-toighty blog that my comments are disabled. I did nothing to change my layout and/or setup on blogger. So I check out BloggerBuzz for anything new.

Guess what? They updated the commenting functionality for blogger. They added some kind of drop-down menu or embedded comment form. It’s on by default. They say it works for all types of templates. I’m using a custom old style layout. The new commenting system didn’t work out of the box. I have had to reset to using the old, full page style. Thanks, a lot, blogger! I had to spend some time figuring out what happened. They should’ve just notified us of the new style rather than going ahead and executing the change immediately. Do they even regression test this stuff? SHEESH. I wonder what the new commenting forms look like.

Anyway, you can now harass me in the comments. But remember, this site is for kids.

“Exotic?” “Ugly.”

broderic on September 2, 2008

Link of the Day [9.02.08]

Can I cheat at doing NewsRadio Quote Month? Maybe. It seems that most of my readers only have begun reading my blog in the last year or so when the blog impetus blew up with the seed and his crew. So let’s go back to the begin.

Woah! This is too inside baseball to do. Have fun!! Click on the every 9.0x link in the registry on the right for more NewsRadio goodness.

http://browsermetrics.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_archive.html