Archive for January, 2005

Hmm ok what is going on? Well, I am currently watching Little Britain. I had quite a TV plan despite the fact it has interrupted my movie watching. I was watching The Matrix: Revolutions but I turned that off to watch My Hero. Followed by The Simpsons and now this.

After this I will be watching something on Sky One called Tripping the Rift or something, I have never heard of it but it seems to have a similar content to South Park if I am understanding correct what the Radio Times have written.

That will be followed by Peter Kay live and providing that is pretty good I will spend an hour watching that before getting on to watching my new DVD, Wrong Turn which has Eliza Dushku on so huzzah!

There is some other stuff going on I think. I have loads of websites and domains to sort but that requires effort. Well, I best leave you with some kind of closing, though: Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace rules!

I need money! For many reasons. I was bidding on a Jeremiah DVD but it is up to £26.00 plus £3.00 shipping now so I have decided to pass on bidding again as there are many other things I need to buy. Well at the moment it is mainly just saving up for things.

The first thing is World of Warcraft: it comes out on February 4th and there is the game to buy and then the subscription to pay for later. It takes me quite a while to save up as I have a lot of web hosting and domains bills to keep up. There is more more to buy also.

Mainly DVDs. I only have 3 more episodes of Dawson’s Creek series 3 to watch (plus two episode commentaries) and then I am done with series 3 and need to move on to series 4. The series 4 DVD comes out in 4 days although it is almost £35.

The other DVD I want is Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse which comes out on February 7th. It isn’t listed on Play.com yet though so I am not sure what is going on. The only pre-order I have seen is Amazon which has been there since October.

There has been a murder at my house! Ok, we are not totally sure yet but we have strong reasons to beleive that is what happened. Our last gold fish is missing presumed dead! And all the signs point to murder most foul. Today Nerd Federation shall officially have a day of mourning.

Ya see this was no ordinary goldfish. It was a highly evolved canbial goldfish pet. We have never fed our goldfish, they find enough food in the pond. Or this one did, it was huge; really fat. And all the other fish disappeared – they didn’t die, they just disappeared. Obviously eaten by the king goldfish.

So this goldfish has been alone for a year or two. It really is that old I mean this thing is like nearly as old as me. Ok now that old but I recon it was pushing ten years old easily! And now it is dead a – someone accross the road said they found a big fat goldfish about a week ago – all the clues add up!

That goldfish was my only pet. I mean sure this gives me an excuse to get an Aibo but an Aibo is go generic. Who else had a cannibal goldfish that waited more than Dean and even allowed you to stroke it (no BS, you could actually reach into the pond and stroke it with one finger)?

It’s impressive to say the least. I am starting to get worried about my bandwidth now, it has used more than most sites will do a month and we are only 2 days in. Still I think I should be ok as long as there isn’t an explosion of traffic on other sites. But that is beside the point; this post is about it getting a lot of traffic.

It has had January 1st and 2nd and the first two hours of the 3rd since the stats updated. And so far it has 450 uniques! Ok, I realize many sites do better but compare it to the other sites that I have. Erica Planet which for unique counts was about my highest – it has 188 so far.

The average user stays for 3 pages on Erica Planet. Mworld is going one better than that and holding them for 4. Although that does not factor in my use of the site which has been fairly heavy as I battled to get all the content online. 450 uniques though, that would put it in the region of 6000 a month if it sustains.

The thing is, until a few days ago I hadn’t updated mworld for an entire year! I updated it Christmas 2003 and then finally, on the 2nd of January 2005. No updates throughout 2004 and it still has this traffic. That shows you how much the search engines value the length of time a site has been up.

Well I thought everything was sorted. But I forgot about a few things. M World has at least 4 sub-sites not included with the regular sites/ list. These are M World Music, M World Photozone, M World Germany and M World Canada. Probably a good thing I never got round to launching M World UK.

Anyway, I managed to find a copy of M World Music on my old hard drive, that is back online now. As is M World Germany which I found on a backup CD from around 2 years ago. The same goes for M World Canada, that was on the same CD, so I uploaded those, fixed a few errors and they were back online.

The search goes on for M World Photozone however. Which is the site that saved me. I only realised these 4 sites were missing when I was checking through the logs and found referrals from Google Images. I ran a search on Google Images and found many of my images missing which is when I realised.

It has been good to look back at the sites, most notably M World Canada though. The old design which although is the same basic template as the current M World, it has a slightly different look and logo, just shows you how the designs change.