Archive for May 7th, 2007
Top 5 ways Paris Hilton could get out of her jail time
May 7th, 2007 • 1 comment funny
So my girlfriend and I were talking about Paris Hilton’s recent conviction for “blatant disregard” of her probation. And really, I think the whole situation is hi-larious and the judge is really sticking it to her — no, this is not meant as a double entendre. But we decided to come up with a list of 5 ways she could easily manage to skirt her jail time altogether:
Short, concise list but hey, we’re talking about a hotel heiress here, who needs to be complicated? My vote is definitely for #1 as I could actually see her mom wanting to pull such a stunt.
Quick question
May 7th, 2007 • christianity, kenites
I’m busy researching the Kenites due to a discussion sparked on IRC between myself and a member of the Shepherd’s Chapel. If anyone has some information I could glean that’s not from Wikipedia, please comment it or contact me with the information. It seems finding out their origin or primary place of living before being integrated into the tribe of Judah and migrating to Jerusalem is more difficult than I first thought.
Interesting stats and search engine rankings
As any good webmaster does, I’ve been pouring over my stats and logs as of late in an order to try and weed out any 404 hits for my wiki. Since I reorganized my site a few months ago to move the wiki into a subdirectory and have the blog be the main attraction, I’ve had a ton of 404s in relation to searches on Outlook error messages and Exim errors. Thankfully, Google has been quick to dump these old links in favor of the new ones.
However, I’m noticing a sharp trend in my stats for this month in particular. My posts about the upcoming ABC debate between two Christians and two Atheists and the PBS documentary about the history of non-theist thought have generated enormous amounts of traffic. In almost any permutation of PBS atheism documentary and ABC atheist debate, I’m in the top 5 queries if not the top 2 or 3. Now, what I wrote isn’t overwhelmingly interesting but I’m noticing a ton of hits from these searches along with hits from other sites directly linking here. I’ve done very little directly to influence this as I’m not going around to every non-theist site I can find and spamming my posts there. In fact, I’ve really only passed a few emails about these subjects with Hemant from friendlyatheist.com. And I only made two posts about each one on my favourite forums in order to spark debate there, not drive traffic here. This odd trend has garnered me 5,000 hits more than my highest trafficked month so far and it’s only the seventh day of the month.
Does this indicate, to me at least, that more and more people in America — and the world in a wider respect — becoming more accepting to non-theist views or are fostering their inner non-theist in a search for knowledge? I would venture a guess at a combination of both. However, I’m also so inclined to guess that given the proximity of airing dates for both programs, this may also be the driving force of the traffic increase, no pun intended.
America’s growing digital divide
May 7th, 2007 • Uncategorized
Pew Internet just published a new study detailing the growing digital divide between Americans. I do not know how accurate the numbers are however, they’re quite an eye opener in regards to the growing divide between the technically adept and those who refuse to use new technology or lack the understanding of it.
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