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In response to a good friend’s post, here are some interesting statistics on the visitors to my site. However, as Josh mentioned areas within the United States, I will begin with the visitors from other countries that visited my site recently in 2008.

In no particular order:

Romania, The Philippines, Ireland, Canada, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Finland, Australia, Thailand, The United States, The United Kingdom, Turkey, Czech Republic, Argentina, The United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Belgium, Macao, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, Lithuania, Taiwan, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Mauritius, South Africa, India, Norway, France, Poland, Sweden, Ecuador, Italy, Austria, Kuwait, and Greece.

That to me is interesting. Josh and I recently discussed site traffic so I’m glad I saw his post this morning (even though it was from last month… Sorry, Josh!). Like Josh mentioned, the traffic is being generated from search traffic. What is interesting is the way people are coming to my site… It’s for posts I thought would have no impact on the tech people around me, much less across the planet!

I’ve been amazed at the relevance of some of my posts as they rank on Google. A lot of these people are searching for “metasploit mac osx” or something similar, and my post, found here, ranks number one on Google. People are also stumbling upon (pun intended) my Web site for queries related to recording rap albums, Garage Band, CakePHP, png2ico, and other things I have blogged about in the past for my own personal notes, or to help others out of they needed it… Looks like they’re needing it…

Analytics is a wonderful thing. While 60% of my visitors are from the States, it is interesting to see the amount of traffic originating from other countries… And scary! Like Josh says in his posts: “These people are looking at ME!” The bad thing is that, I actually have photos of me some guy I saw on the street and paid to let me take his photo on here… And, other people… I guess the whole world knows us now… Except, their only interested in Metasploit! Sorry to burst your bubble!

Until next time…

Until next time…

I’ve been doing some, as I call them, “artistic additions” to some photos lately. I have been trying to mess with textures, frames, etc. to create interesting photos. The above image has a texture applied and some masking, for example.

Take a look at this set and see some of what I am talking about. I think the artistic achievements are never ending, but to do it tastefully is the key… That’s the hard part: determining where to add these types of additions to photographs to make them effective and not over done… I’m still learning…

Until next time…