Too much internet?

This might seem like a strange post coming from me. Have you seen how many sites I’m on these days? And those are only the active ones. I tend to be an early adopter so I have a few accounts everywhere online.

I’ve probably been active online since I started university in 1998. I’ve done everything from IRC to yahoo chat rooms to finding StumbleUpon in 2006 and being an early adopter of Facebook and Twitter. So there comes a time when enough is enough, right?

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

It’s a Geeky Christmas

So I really do love everything about christmas. I’ve written before about some of my favourite cheesy muzak and some beautiful choirs spreading the christmas cheer.  Now it’s time to “geek it up” for christmas.

Christmas lights bring out the child in me. We dont really do these kind of big christmas light displays in South Africa. It doesn’t make sense in our weather and it must be really expensive. But we thank our American friends for giving us this light display based on the Angry Birds theme song.

Nature being awesome

I had a friend that hated it when I used the word awesome for every little thing. “If you want awesome, look at the beauty of nature”, he would say. I cant really argue with that. Check out some of these cool videos I’ve recently stumbled.

The first one has brought such a lovely word into our awareness: murmuration. Say it again with me: murrrrmurrrrmaaaation. Lovely. I’m sure it’s led many people to their google to find other interesting words for collections of birds. A parliament of owls? Really?!  For the real geeks, there’s some real science behind this but, really… all you have to do is watch and smile.

You can dance if you want to

We can dance if we want to

We can leave your friends behind

‘Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance

Well they’re no friends of mine

I say, we can go where we want to

A place where they will never find

And we can act like we come from out of this world

Leave the real one far behind

And we can dance

I say, we can dance, we can dance

Everything out of control

We can dance, we can dance

I like.

~anib

What’s this about Curation?

So the internet is a pretty amazing place, isn’t it? It’s a great source of information, fun and um…. cats**.  Ok, so it’s not perfect but I think that we all find having the internet at our fingertips very useful.

When we google something, we expect to have the answers to our questions in the first three results. If we wikipedia something, we accept that the information has been checked and verified by a crowd of internet saints. We make friends on various social networks with similar interests and will happily click on links that they post, expecting it to take us somewhere interesting.

So is this it? Is what we see online the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Well, in an interesting chain of events.. I learned something new today.

Fun with email spam

So who doesn’t like email spam? Well um.. no one, I think. But occasionally an email crosses your path that you just cant ignore. On Friday, I received such an email. The subject matter already caused concern….

Well, I figured some of my accounting buddies wanted to Fwd Fw me some impRotent infRomation… and it was from a gmail address… so it cant be a company trying to sell me stuff I dont want or need… right? Oh, I am an eternal optimist.

Have you heard about Egypt?

By now you’ve all seen or heard at least something about Egypt. If you haven’t… what are you doing?

I got caught up int the Twitter stream of “Revolution 2.0” and managed to catch most of it on Al Jazeera live. Now that the president is gone, I’ve been able to catch up on how the revolution evolved. If you wanted to know how this happened, watch and learn with me.

Too hot to think

So… it’s hot in Cape Town….. unbearably hot. I thought I’d share something to cool us all down. How about some fun in the snow?

I stumbled onto this cute video of a dancing penguin. The article from The Daily Mail compares the happy little one to the main character from the movie “Happy Feet”. Got to admit it… this just makes me smile.

2010 in review

*this is an automated post*

 

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2010. That’s about 4 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 25 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 97 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 9mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was September 30th with 76 views. The most popular post that day was About me.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were stumbleupon.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, hootsuite.com, and en.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for tv test pattern, nerdy redhead, high five fail, high five, and fernando vicente vanitas.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

About me September 2010

2

I heart StumbleUpon October 2010
4 comments

3

The cult of Hello Kitty October 2010
1 comment

4

20/10/2010 was Troll Christmas October 2010
6 comments

5

The zombies are coming October 2010