Category: Internet

I have added an RSS feed for my blog, thanks to David Janes of Janes’ blogosphere. You can also search the archives with the Google search box on the sidebar. Another addition is the list of books I am currently reading.

Yesterday I passed 5,000 page views and today crossed 4,000 unique visits. It has taken me about 2.5 months.

Haloscan seems to be having problems. The comments have been off and on since yesterday. Now they are working but some recent comments are gone. A notice on the Haloscan website says that server work is in progress. Hope they fix the problems soon.

Recently, I have added some weblogs to my blogroll. So I should probably mention them: Path of the Paddle is Ikram Saeed’s blog who can been present in the comments section here and on a lot of other blogs. Now he has his own blog to pontificate on everything from Islam, War on Terror, Iraq… Continue reading Blogroll

It seems that some virus/worm is making its way through the net. Access to anything on the internet has been sporadic for the last few hours. My firewall log contains lots of blocked UDP accesses on port 1434. Looking at Matrix NetSystems graphs, it seems that packet loss increased a lot and reachability was reduced… Continue reading Denial of Service Attack

A very interesting endeavor: If the 25-below-zero temperature, howling wind and grim effects of altitude sickness do not make most of those trying to scale Mount Everest feel a world away from home, the near-complete lack of communications on and around Everest surely does. This year, just in time for the 50th anniversary of Sir… Continue reading Email me from Mt. Everest

Thanks to Ikram Saeed for the 100th comment on this blog. He has been the most prolific commenter here. According to my counters, I have had about 3257-3306 “unique visitors” since around Nov 21 last year. More than a third of these were in a two-day burst due to an InstaPundit link. Usually, I get… Continue reading Comments and Visitors

Even though the large majority of my readers are from North America, I was surprised to find such a large number of countries represented among my readers: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, New Zealand, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Costa Rica, Estonia, Singapore, Czech Republic, United Arab Emirates, Sweden,… Continue reading The Reach of the Internet

Newseum is a very cool site containing the front page of newspapers from around the world in the form they are published on paper. (Found via CalPundit.)

I missed one closing quote in the link to Jim at the end of the last post. Now I can’t edit the post, not even in safe mode. Does anyone have any solutions? UPDATE: Fixed by copying the link for “edit” for another post and replacing the post ID of the last post in there.