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While this figure is an estimate and liable to be far different from what we actually think it is, the best estimation that we can do at the moment suggests that Worfolk Online is currently serving 97,000 uniques a month. We’re so close to hitting the 100,000 mark!

The recent surges have come from rapidly going performances in xmeltrut.com daily news celeb fansites. I’m hoping that Blair Space will eventually begin to pick up as well. Some kind of mix-up resulted in it being renewed until 2007 rather than 2006 so if search engines do count the years that will be a plus. Also, it will be celebrating it’s 1st birthday on December 9th.

I don’t know how I went from one movie project to countless numbers but somehow I did so I’m going to try and get it sorted in my own head.

Sleepless: the horror movie, waiting for writers group to help on the script

Dark Streets: saving until next year, need to write up script

Keeping Up With the Buses: need to write to First and ask them for permission

Tungsten Puppy: shooting video next Saturday, need to sort equipment

The Road to World Domination: documentary behind my bid to set up World Domination Soc, on-going project, need to record more on Monday

Midnight Heat: no real time contrainsts, just need to put a script together for it

Buffy.com.au (also known as BCA) has announced that it will be closing Christmas Day. It will be sad to see it go. Its forum is currently the second biggest Buffy forum on the internet sitting between Buffy World in first and my own Buffy Talk in third.

I don’t know if you saw the story about the RAC Route Finder that told people to go by Ireland and France to get from Manchester to Cornwall or something like that. Well an RAQ spokesperson said this about it:

“There was a glitch with the route finder.”

And the line I really like…

“People should not go that way.”

I placed an order with CD-RMedia.co.uk on Sunday and it said dispatched by Monday via next day deliver – and never showed up. It still not having showed up by today (I asked at the office, they had nothing), I phoned them up and was told that they had a problem with 200-300 orders over the weekend that basically never went through their dispatch system.

That was annoying enough but they seemed to be like “yeah, well, it happened, we’re dealing with it, just sit tight.” Not “opps, how could this happen, we’re so sorry.” Next day delivery and it’s going to come 8 days after I ordered it? What’s that about?

Have a gander over at MetaCritic.com. Remind you of anything? How about Rotten Tomatoes. The whole giving stuff a rating based on what all the other critics have said. Seems a little familiar huh?

And in case your not aware, the proud owner of Rotten Tomatoes is IGN. One of the major gaming sites on the internet. And of course, one of CNet’s major properties is GameSpot, the other major gaming site on the internet.

In recent years, CNet have made a large bid to move into the entertainment arena, not just gaming. But whereas IGN have gone for channels, CNet just bought out other properties. They took MP3.com, TV Tome which they prompted turned into TV.com and also have Game FAQs.

CNet have already gone out for the best though. The amount of one word domains they own is scarey:

TV.com
Radio.com
MP3.com
Builder.com
Shopping.com
Help.com
Download.com
Downloads.com
Sharware.com
Freeware.com
Search.com
News.com
Com.com
Welcome.com

They probably have more too, I’ll post them as I think of them.

I got listening to LSRfm this morning. The Breakfast Show was on which was pretty good as they were talking about what was in the papers. Just tuned in now though and it’s all music so I’ve given it a miss for the moment. May have to check out some of the other stuff.

World Domination Soc seems to be going ok. I now have 21 of the 20 signatures I didn’t but Kev has lost his student card so he doesn’t know his student number and Olli was signed up by John so I need to check that with him before he counts. I have Oli (different guy, notice the spelling change ;)) almost interested in being the treasurer but I still need to find a secretary and have it approved by the union council so still a long way to go.

I went down to speak to John Schloss today about setting up World Domination Soc. He seemed to think it was some kind of polictical debate society as I don’t think I convayed the idea too well but I have a form to fill out so I really need to go overboard on the description and also brainstorm some more ideas to get into a real niche.

Hmm, I just booted up my laptop and I didn’t get the serious error message warning. Wierd. Last time I had it on, I spent all last night running a virus scan which uncovered two viruses and then I downloaded and installed Spybot: Search and Destroy which found tons of spyware on my system. I removed it all other than the Alexa stuff.

I don’t believe that all that stuff was actually spyware and viruses, I think these things are way over protective and as such create a lot of paranoia among novice users. After all, stuff like Alexa is on my system because I want it there.

Still I can see that one thing sending data out such as Alexa but that I didn’t actually need could be causing the error so while I still don’t believe I need a spyware checker most of the time, it did come in handy this time.

Presuming the problem is gone, I don’t like to proclaim that it has worked as I’m scared when I restart it will just come straight back again. But I’ll deal with that when it happens.

As I previously mentioned today (or technically yesterday) was Grant House’s formal dinner. It wasn’t a bad meal and afterwards everyone headed down to Bod Bar and then on to The Courtyard in town. That was pretty good although I never got round to the barbeque.

I had an urge to come back and listen to some Michelle Branch though so I headed off at 11:35 and after a quick stop at McDonalds, just over the road from the bus stop, I caught the bus back to Bod. At the moment I’m burning a disk image so that I can make some copies of the Random Questions to Random People DVD.