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I the counter plugin that I installed really works, my blog does have a quite many readers. I thought that I would be the only person moving this counter, but it jumped already to over 300 in just a few days. This might either mean that I have some readers or then alternatively it would mean that the counter is programmed quite badly. I want to believe that there isn’t anything really wrong with the counter.
It is just weird to think that your site might have lured over 300 readers in such a short time. I might have something to do with the automatic crawlers that could visit the page. I used to receive frequent spam before I installed the captcha plugin for the comments on my site. This of course gives you the idea that this counter might be just useless. What I would really love that would prove me wrong is a single comment from a human being. So if you’re reading this, please use some of your time to leave me a single comment.
Having a look at the statistics provided by Google Analytics, my site wouldn’t have had too many new visitors in the past few days. The exact number would be three and it does look like these visits have come from Brazil. So hi to you, if you’re reading this. This makes it really interesting, to think that the site user numbers are so different looking at two different sources. I can’t really say that either one of these is absolutely right. Because yesterday at the job interview, the person who interviewed me did ask me about the site and did visit it with his own compter, so that should show up in the stats also. So the right amount could be somewhere between these two number. Exactly where, I do not know.
I used some time also yesterday wondering that what browsers do people mostly use today. Looking at my stats from Google Analytics, Safari would be the most used browser for visiting my site. This comes as no surprise, because the site is mostly about MAC and for that the Safari would be the correct browser to target for. It looks really depressing when you try to look for the new users with this Google Statistics. According to this I haven’t had a new visitor on the site for several months. I know that this information is wrong, because of the interview I had yesterday. Just mentioning that the counter did have the number 417 on it. So according to that I either have a surprisingly active set of frequent users or then I just have an incredible number of these not so real visitors. I would be really interesting to find out a little more about how does this Google Analytics count the number of visitors. It could just count ones that have spend at least a minute on the site, which would automatically drop bots that are looking for a place where to leave comments. I believe that these would just crawl through the site really fast and leave if they wouldn’t find a place to leave any comments or so on. If this is the case, I would have to think adding some other counter to my site or see if the counter I have can be modified to leave out these other visitors.
Word of the day
mal-le-a-ble – (of a metal or other material) able to be hammered or pressed permanently out of shape without breaking or cracking

I think that this blog is most important for my own benefit. I get to write some HTML code (even if it isn’t too complicated), I get to teach myself some English while doing this and I get to practice typing. You can never really be too fast at typing. And for these reasons I decided the 500 words I have mentioned so many times on these posts. This one did go to over 660, but that is just a nice addition.
I did a small modification for the counter plugin. I made that it counts only unique visitors. That counter is reset every 24 hours, but it might still help a little with the numbers. These might give you as little better understanding of these numbers or then not, but let’s not go to that.

It isn’t easy to get into the working life without any experience. I for example have great skills with some software on my computer, but still I don’t get to work as I would want to. Most of all, the people that don’t even understand why they work are just really getting on my nerves. They don’t even want to work and don’t understand why do they work and still they do. I know that these people are important part of the society, but I’m just so annoyed atm that I don’t have a job and that some of these people do and they don’t come up with anything else but to complain about their job.
I had a interview today. This was for a good position in a good company and so on. All seemed to be just perfect, until they realised that I didn’t have the skills that they were looking for. Their head programmer suggested that I wouldn’t use such strong language on my knowing as I did. I had for example put down that I knew WordPress and PHP. This was just fine, but I didn’t know them as well as they would have wanted me to know them. I have a fairly good crasp of PHP, but I couldn’t write an application that would connect to a mySQL database without getting a little help from Google. I also thought that being able to use WordPress and some of its plugins would be enough, but they thought that I was a part of the team that wrote the source code for WordPress.
After these few things they told me that I might not have the skills that they were looking for with this position. It’s hard to say that they did anything wrong there, but I think also that it’s hard to say that I did anything too wrong there. I had my change, even if the position wasn’t exactly what I was looking for. I think that I should get the qualifications from UEA and then I could really start with working. Though PHP, HTML and CSS are something that is used a lot at the moment, I think that I could get some good tips from UEA and could be ahead of most of the public. I do understand that this would be a year out of my schedule, but that wouldn’t seem like a impossible sacrifice to make.
I have now written about 400 words about my frustration with this. It does give a little idea of my feelings, but I think it still doesn’t really give you the full details. It would seem that it is just so easy to those who have born here. To that I have to say though that it isn’t too much easier. Today no one really cared about my accent and the whole interview was just based on the skills that I would be bringing to the team. While some might find this odd, it is the thing that I would like to see even more often than at the moment.
This was the 500 words about this applying today. I think that I can just put this aside for now and go home to see if we have any food there.

PS: The word of the day will be here in a little while, don’t lose your temper just yet.

The word of the day
Ar-bi-trar-y : based on a random choice or personal whim

So I couldn’t sleep and I decided to write a blog post instead of sleeping like normal people. I read a little of the book that I’m currently reading, watched all the new Youtube videos from the channels witch I’m subscribed to and now I decided that I should make a blog post now when I’m really not in the best condition to do so.
I wanted to tell here that I tried a this new search engine, which did look like a OK solution. I’m still afraid that it will never get nearly as big as google is at the moment. The name of this new search engine was blekko. It does sound a little stupid at the moment, but who tough that Google was a good name for a company? You can find a link to their site HERE.
This engine does have a good idea behind it and I believe that it will receive some fans. The problem is though that it takes years to get as good map of the whole web as google has. Also google isn’t just a search engine anymore, but it provides e-mail and many other really useful services. Blekko would be bringing many interesting features to the table, but I’m afraid that they would become as well known as some of googles great tools. For example you can search something with filetype: with google, and most people don’t know anything about this service. My point is just that a similar thing might happen to blekkos useful features. Though the 200K would suggest that they would have some money to start with and I think that it’s a lot more than what google had to begin with.
I was just thinking that is this still too close to google. By this I mean that there isn’t too much difference between blekkos and googles basic idea, so it will be just really hard to get to googles market with something so similar to google. Bing has tried this, and with a lot more money than 200K, but google seems to be the king of the hill anyway. Microsoft has gotten many fans with their project, but it hasn’t really significantly lowered the amount of googles searches. I suggest that people would trust into some of these smaller companies, that we could get some healthy contest to google (yes we do have bing, but it really isn’t that small contestant).
This has been a funny blog post when you think of it. The material on this post made even less sense than the previous posts, but I think that it is still just fine. Writing a long post on monday night isn’t the thing that most would really recommend if you wanted to create something memorable.

Now I started a new segment here a while ago, which would bring a new word here each day. Todays word is pro-cras-ti-nate – delay or post pone action, put off doing something
Great, now I’m unsure if this is the same word as in the previous post. But lets just let the whole thing slide by without caring about it too much. And at this point I would just say good night. By the way – this post also has a little over 500 words, so it kinda allows me to skip posting on tuesday. Doesn’t it?