Monthly Archives: August 2004

Mission Sense

Sarah asked me to dust off one of my pet projects so Poco could sink her teeth into something more satisfying than bug squishing. I’d been campaigning for a rewrite of the supporting code for a process I’d worked when I was part of the clerical staff. Much of that work was painfully routine, and moving the boring part of it out of the office and into a program would have positive impacts in all sorts of places. I’d first written a proposal while I was a clerk, and had rewritten it a couple times since. Sarah set me a couple design parameters for another revision, and handed that version to Poco.

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Jeannie Longo? Jeannie Longo?

Watched the Olympic Women’s Road Race this morning, and had lots of fun.  It was astonishing, though, to find Jeannie Longo leading the race early on, and fascinating to watch her control the pack late in the race.  Veteran hardly describes the woman; she was that over a decade ago.  Finished tenth!  I suspect she’s a little different from most of us….

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Visited by Visions

If there’s any one thing yesterday’s note demonstrates, it’s that Bureaucratic Whimsy is not a traffic magnet. None of the most popular pages on the site are about my job, and none of the common searches find those pages. That’s an issue I expect to discuss next week.

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Blog Logs

I’ve come to believe that the most interesting number NetTracker delivers about this site is “Total repeat visitors.”  The numbers there suggest that I’ve got about 25 “daily readers” (user agents, for the most part), and perhaps a hundred readers overall who check the site regularly.  This has been pretty stable since mid-May, when my readership suddenly doubled over a three-week period.

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