Modulator


On The Road

8/16 (Bumped to top): Still traveling with little time for posting.
8/13: The Modulator Staff will be on the road from 8/13-22. Posting will be very light. The Ark should board on Friday albeit with slow and sparse updates.
This post will be pushed to the top as needed.


ABCs of Modulator

PZ Myers posted this meme last December and since that seems like just yesterday I don’t feel at all slow about just getting around to doing it here. I’ve put it in my tickler file to do again in a year to see what might change.

Here’s a simple meme: go up to your browser’s address bar, type a single letter, and note what URL pops up first in the autofill. Repeat for each letter of the alphabet. Supposedly, this will reveal something about who you are.


A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q –
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z


Hmmmm, I don’t surf to any Qs. Very telling….
Via Pharyngula.


Hosting Problems

I apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced accessing Modulator on Monday 5/30. The server Modulator is hosted on begain failing at about 21:40 GMT and service was not restored until sometime around 07:00 GMT on 5/31.
Puzzling to me is that Sitemeter shows a fair amount of activity during the problem period. Heck, I couldn’t get in how could all those folks….?


March’s Top Referrers

This post is way late so I’ll keep it over a bit next month.
On the right side bar is the updated roll of Modulator’s 21 top referrers for the month of March. Numbers 20 and 21 each produced 25 referrals compared to 20 for numbers 20 and 21 in January.
December churn: 6 blogs dropped and 6 new ones added compared to 9 and 9 in February.
Overall traffic was down about 7.7% from February and up 211% from March 04 (no I do not expect the year to year growth to continue at that rate).
Top Referrer: Pharyngula. Thanks, PZ!
Top search phrase/word: live strong
Most popular post: Live Strong
Statistics are culled from AWStats running on Modulator’s server at Hosting Matters.
Again, thank you one and all!
Also, I’d like to acknowledge referrals from some of the blogosphere’s ‘service’ sites: Technorati, weblogs.com, blogrolling.com, MovableType, Blogdex, Bloglines, blogoshpere.us, Sitemeter, NZ Bear’s Ecosystem, Bloogz and Daypop.
All of the blog rolls are ordered by most recently updated so be sure to ping weblogs.com or blogrolling.com to push to the top of the rolls. These are certainly the sites I tend to look at first and visitors will see you at the top of the roll as well.
For a brief discussion of Modulator’s blog rolls look here.