29. January, 2003 - the day after

• Yesterday's CSS tinkering had brought in about 1000 hits by 4:30pm CST (in the first 10 hours it was up, basically). But only 47 of those people went on to look at anything else on my site. Similarly, most people who visit from google don't look at anything but the one page they came here for. I think I've gotta figure out how to entice people to look around more. Meanwhile, it's time to catch up on the linkage.
• Since I got a fair number of hits yesterday, I also decided it was time to look at Optimizing my PHP at least a little. There were peak-periods when I noticed my server getting a little less responsive (though most other people probably didn't notice). I haven't improved things a whole lot yet, but I think I have a handle on what's slow, and that's the first step in optimizing.
• Time Warner subscribers out in the cold when it comes to FSN. There's also a link on the right side of the article telling more details of why FSN has gone to being the Missing Sports Network. But as I pointed out a while back, I'm not that torn up over the loss of FSN, and probably won't be during baseball season either. The games I want to see aren't televised much in Minneapolis anyhow.
• Rear-Drive Returns in Grand Fashion. Apparently it was gone, and I didn't notice. They also neglect to mention the all-important whippin' shitties benefit of rear-drive in snowy parts of the country. [fark!]
• Utah bowled over by meteor plan. The plan? To drop bowling balls out of high-flying airplanes to simulate meteor strikes on the salt-flats (to see what they look like so they can identify terrain features that are meteor strikes). The problem? The BLM said that the prospect of high speed bowling balls plunging into the weather stations, geology researchers or racing car enthusiasts that populate the salt flat was simply not acceptable. [boing boing]
• For those who dig road travel Some people collect stamps. Others collect highways, or at least catalog and write about their local freeways in a highly detailed manner. Don't miss Upper Midwest Freeway Exit Guides and the Fictional Exit List for MN 77, MN 62 to MN 55. The latter is interesting in a "looking at someone else's mess in SimCity" kind of way. [reed]

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:32:41.