“Radio Shack: You’ve got questions – we’ve got blank stares. And cell phones!”
Happy April Fool’s Day!
I hope you liked my little prank. If you missed it, you can see it here.
Somebody
I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.-Lily Tomlin
Happy Ides of March
I hope your day is going better than Julius Caesar’s did. He had a bad Ides, back in 44 BCE.
Netflix Stats update for February 2006
Netflix didn’t do too badly last month. 13 movies, the quickest turnaround was 5.10 hours, the slowest turnaround was 29.55 hours, with an average of 10.87 hours. There were only two shipments that took an extra day. We also had one DVD that was scratched, so there was one evening we didn’t have a movie to watch. Always open up the DVD sleeve to examine a disc for damage before you plan on watching the movie. View the updated netflix analysis chart.
Guess what happens on March 26, 2006
If the current trends were to somehow magically hold steady through the end of the month, I’ll pass someone else’s Alexa rank on March 26, 2006. Here’s proof (after all, if there is a cool chart [well, it’s not real cool, this is just a quick and dirty Excel chart], it must be true!) 
Spot the 3 Differences
Can you see the three subtle differences between the two photos? Over 8000 people were tested to see if they could find the 3 differences and only 19 got it. See how observant you are. 3 differences
Alexa rank at 690,887
Wow, Alexa thinks PlanetMike.com is ranked #690,887. Does that mean that there are only 690,886 web sites that get more traffic than I do? Wow, that’s actually kind of impressive. Here’s a traffic button/ad thing for Alexa:
If you don’t see it, that’s because it is a javascript thing.
Netflix Analysis Update: Dec 2005 and Jan 2006
Wow, time sure flies. With the holidays, lots of theater reviews completed, and some major medical issues, it’s amazing to me that my wife and I still saw a total of 15 DVDs in December and January (plus watching 7 seasons of MASH). And, yes I still believe that Netflix should do better than calling their unlimited plan “unlimited,” it really is not a bad deal at all. I know I would never drive down to the local video place and try to rent any of the DVDs we’ve seen. Old TV shows, classic black and white movies, and movies we added just for the heck of it are a few of the DVDs we’ve watched lately. Updated Netflix analysis. Thanks for the nudge, Derik :).
PlanetMike web traffic updated
Yesterday during the Super Bowl I ran the web traffic logs for PlanetMike.com. And discovered that dozens of people at MySpace.com are leaching images from my web site for use on their profile pages. So I am now changing those images to be an ad for my web site. I wonder how long my images will continue to be leached? And I hope that people learn that using other people’s images isn’t cool. If I have to I’ll put in some mod_rewrite rules tot ake care of the traffic.
My updated log reports are at visits. You can see a nice spike starting up in September. The August spike was a spider running amok in my blog pages. It looks like it got caught in a Blosxom loop.
