Looking through the server logs for Windypundit, I noticed that my bandwidth usage was up to 40 gigabytes this month, which is pretty high. A little investigation showed that just over half the bandwidth consisted of this stock photo from last year: That photo was served to the web 170,000 times this month. Since Windypundit didn't have anywhere near that many visits this … [Read more...] about Sex Sells
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Something For Me To Ponder…
A couple of weeks ago, Windypundit was getting about 300 visits per day. I just checked, and now it's getting about 400 visits per day. Apparently, the less I post, the more popular I become. … [Read more...] about Something For Me To Ponder…
Meet The New Blog – Same As The Old Blog
[Update: ARG!!! Lots of problems! Working on it...] [Update: Okay, I think I fixed the problem by reloading the templates.] [Update: Put back author names under the titles. Rebuilt static web pages.] Windypundit has now been upgraded to run on Movable Type 4. I started the process of porting Windypundit to the new software several weeks ago by building a test … [Read more...] about Meet The New Blog – Same As The Old Blog
Virginia Postrel…
...just got some bad news. She's been diagnosed with breast cancer. She worked it into this list of 8 Random Facts about her. Damn. Virginia is an author, a speaker, and a past editor of Reason magazine. My thoughts and writing on many issues have been influenced by her strong advocacy of classical liberal values such as freedom, creativity, enterprise, and respect for the … [Read more...] about Virginia Postrel…
Have You Been Trying to Reach Me?
I upgraded to Microsoft Outlook 2003 a few weeks ago, and I just sort of assumed that if anything went wrong there'd be error messages or something. It turns out that Outlook and the Windypundit mail server aren't talking to each other. I didn't notice because I have about half a dozen email accounts coming into Outlook and all the others seem to be working. I finally … [Read more...] about Have You Been Trying to Reach Me?