First Quarter 2008 Server Logs

It’s been a while since I’ve poked fun at some of the search terms folks have used to find this website. Why stop now?

Which Airfare Website is the Cheapest?

Unless they arrange travel for others or travel a lot themselves, most people tend to assume that all airlines ticket websites are created equal — all showing the same availability and fares. Not so.

Alternative to about:blank…

In a shameless plug to earn a few extra bucks each month, I ask that anyone who normally sets their default home page to about:blank, to the main Google search page, or to another search engine to please change it to rdlnational.com/google/ instead. This simple page adds tremendous value: it’s about as simple as the [...]

30 Months Old…

As of this Sunday, RR… will have been up and around for two and a half years, a quarter of my goal achieved to keep some form of journal for ten years. This just happens to be an on-line version that everyone with a browser has access to. A lot has transpired since its inception, [...]

Windows XP and ZIP Files…

The Windows operating system has made a lot of advances in the last ten years — that admission a shocker coming from me, eh?! However, Microsoft has not been the innovator; rather it is the third-party companies that develop enhancements that have been the driving force behind the improvements.
For example, Norton Utilities was (and probably [...]

The Real Extent of the Web…

The following contains excerpts from (and is very much based on) an article by Noah Masterson that appeared in the online rag Rush Magazine way back in 2000.
I am easy to track down. Type my name into any search engine and you’ll find enough pages to choke a hippo. Try it: Google • MSN • [...]

No Longer in the Running…

I’ve been sadly replaced in the top Google searches for “stephanie adams”. Either no one has searched for her in the last week, or Google has decided that my site is no longer worthy to be in fourth place. *sniff*
Now, however, of the 106 search terms that have been used to find my website in [...]

I Love Server Logs…

If you know what to look for, you can find some really interesting facts on the Internet:
The top search term used to find the Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science website in October 2001 was “suicide”.
If I were to visit Professor David Gosman’s CFD research group at the Thermofluids section of Department [...]