Scott T: The Blog

6-month Round-up

Posted Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:16pm by Scott
Tagged: fires, spam, this-site, water

It's now nearly 6 months since I got started with this blog, and although I though I would give it up after a month or so, I've stuck at it and come to enjoy it :) As such, I've decided to do a bit of a round-up on how things have progressed since that rather blunt "first post" in last September.

How things change! I started off with comments on changes to SSC where I had the time and other programming things but before long, uni started to creep in and that's where things really started to grow. Things progressed (both on and off-line) and before long the effects of the lake being cut off were becoming evident and just a few weeks later, a bushfire started not too far from home although it was contained a few days later. Into 2008, the water levels continued to drop (some pretty good photos are available here if you haven't seen them yet) and a fair bit of work was done on V3 of SSC before finally deploying it (with some teething issues - some still visible) last week.

Now for some interesting tid-bits:

March (last month) has been the busiest
Yahoo! indexes far more often than Google, yet Google is the dominant search engine from visitors
The most popular search terms (by far) have contained "7th guest" and "vista" - Unfortunately I won't have my solution ready for quite a while so I recommend you try DosBox or just set an old computer up (That's what I've done :) )
I've had about 15 spam comments and Akismet stopped them all
I've had about 11 non-spam comments - thanks a lot! :D These have been from
- Ryan Leach
- Katie
- spookypeanut
- Larry "Liontamer" Oj

Looking forward for the next 6 months :)

Comments

I'm glad you stuck to it. It's good to know that March has been the busiest - hopefully it'll just keep getting busier and busier! :)

Posted Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 8:17pm by Katie

Thanks for taking the time to read what I write. It makes taking the time feel all the more worthwhile :)

Posted Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 2:46pm by Scott