New Year, New Title (sort of)

You may have noticed the title of this page has changed*. As always, the quasi-official name for this web site is Yet Another Web Site (Yet Another Web Site is fairly common so I use a more unique title for this site’s main page). Other than being a cool name for a band or album, like the previous title, Turquoise Waffle Irons in the Back Yard, the new title has little or nothing to do with the actual content found here (it’s possible I’m making some sort of statement here, so pay attention!).

*It could be worse – an early version of this web page changed its title with every visit (I was doing a lot pointless experimenting with CGI back then).

Summary of 2004

In 2004, 164 posts were added to this web log.

The number of posts in each month:

January:
  12 (7.32%)
February:
  10 (6.1%)
March:
  15 (9.15%)
April:
  6 (3.66%)
May:
  7 (4.27%)
June:
  4 (2.44%)
July:
  13 (7.93%)
August:
  16 (9.76%)
September:
  19 (11.59%)
October:
  26 (15.85%)
November:
  19 (11.59%)
December:
  17 (10.37%)

The number of posts in each day of week:

Sunday:
  6 (3.66%)
Monday:
  27 (16.46%)
Tuesday:
  29 (17.68%)
Wednesday:
  33 (20.12%)
Thursday:
  23 (14.02%)
Friday:
  36 (21.95%)
Saturday:
  10 (6.1%)

At what hours I publish new posts:

6:
  3 (1.83%)
7:
  20 (12.2%)
8:
  18 (10.98%)
9:
  16 (9.76%)
10:
  8 (4.88%)
11:
  25 (15.24%)
12:
  14 (8.54%)
13:
  12 (7.32%)
14:
  8 (4.88%)
15:
  3 (1.83%)
16:
  4 (2.44%)
17:
  3 (1.83%)
18:
  2 (1.22%)
19:
  5 (3.05%)
20:
  9 (5.49%)
21:
  10 (6.1%)
22:
  3 (1.83%)
23:
  1 (0.61%)

In 2010 the posts were commented 280 times, from which 0 comments (0 percent) were written by registered users/authors.

TOP 10 commenters in 2004:

  • Anonymous: 29 comments
  • bria: 12 comments
  • Stimepy: 7 comments
  • rlrr: 6 comments
  • Len Cleavelin: 6 comments
  • Tina: 5 comments
  • m: 3 comments
  • Joe: 3 comments
  • brad: 3 comments
  • MIchael “Miserable Failure” Moore: 2 comments

TOP 10 most commented posts in 2004:

The number of comments in each month:

January:
  8 (2.86%)
February:
  10 (3.57%)
March:
  43 (15.36%)
April:
  37 (13.21%)
May:
  15 (5.36%)
June:
  33 (11.79%)
July:
  16 (5.71%)
August:
  9 (3.21%)
September:
  9 (3.21%)
October:
  32 (11.43%)
November:
  39 (13.93%)
December:
  29 (10.36%)

On what days people comment:

Sunday:
  34 (12.14%)
Monday:
  40 (14.29%)
Tuesday:
  32 (11.43%)
Wednesday:
  56 (20%)
Thursday:
  55 (19.64%)
Friday:
  33 (11.79%)
Saturday:
  30 (10.71%)

At what hours people comment:

0:
  6 (2.14%)
1:
  12 (4.29%)
2:
  5 (1.79%)
3:
  2 (0.71%)
5:
  2 (0.71%)
6:
  3 (1.07%)
7:
  9 (3.21%)
8:
  12 (4.29%)
9:
  15 (5.36%)
10:
  15 (5.36%)
11:
  12 (4.29%)
12:
  12 (4.29%)
13:
  22 (7.86%)
14:
  19 (6.79%)
15:
  14 (5%)
16:
  17 (6.07%)
17:
  10 (3.57%)
18:
  16 (5.71%)
19:
  8 (2.86%)
20:
  18 (6.43%)
21:
  24 (8.57%)
22:
  11 (3.93%)
23:
  16 (5.71%)

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2004: Yet Another Year in Review

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Mmmm, Open Source Beer

(via Musings of a Philosophical Scrivener….)

Danish students launch open source and shareware beer:

A group of IT-students fra the IT-University in Copenhagen has launched a new “open-source” beer, writes the technical journal Ingeniøren.

It is described by the students as “a great tasting energetic beer and it’s the world’s first open source beer! It is based on classic ale brewing traditions but with added guarana for a natural energy-boost.

Version 1.0 is a medium strong beer (6% vol) with a deep golden red colour and an original but familiar taste.”

Here’s more information from the Vores ØL (Our Beer) web site:

How can beer be open source?

The recipe and the whole brand of Our Beer is published under a Creative Commons license, which basically means that anyone can use our recipe to brew the beer or to create a derivative of our recipe. You are free to earn money from Our Beer, but you have to publish the recipe under the same license (e.g. on your website or on our forum) and credit our work. You can use all our design and branding elements, and are free to change them at will provided you publish your changes under the same license (“Attribution & Share Alike”).

…

Why beer?

Why not? We all like beer, and as an added bonus there is a legendary quote used to explain the concept of free software (now usually referred to as open source software):

“Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”.

We think that our open source beer is a nice twist on this quote, and we think it is interesting to see if our beer grows stronger in out in the free and perhaps one day becomes the Linux of beers. Who knows?

If you want to become a beer hacker, you can find the recipe here.

WordPress

As some of you know, in addition to this web log, I also maintain the Drum and Bugle Corps (which has been around in one form or another since 1995!) and the Maritime Simulation News web pages.

Last year, I was using a majorly hacked up version of Blosxom to manage the content of these web sites (after a brief flirtation with PHP-Nuke). After getting farked* late last year, I converted my main web log to MovableType. Later, I converted Maritime Simulation News to WordPress (largely because WordPress is released under the GPL). Now I’m also using WordPress for my Drum and Bugle Corps page.

For now, my main web log will continue to run MovableType, though I’ll likely convert it to WordPress in the future. MovableType is fine software, but it’s not truly free (as in beer and speech).

* The problem was my hacked up version of Blosxom was dynamically rendering my pages. This was fine for normal traffic, but during the farking, I was getting 10,000-20,000 hits per day! — putting a heavy load on the web server’s CPU. I switched to MovableType because it creates static pages (yes, I know Blosxom can create static pages, by my hack was based on an earlier version of Blosxom).

Newtonian Swag

(from the I just thought up a name for the band dept.)

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction – the writers of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart
Pearls Before Swine : BLTs Taste So Darn Good – Stephan Pastis
Images & Words – Dream Theater
Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory – Dream Theater
Fountains of Wayne – Fountains of Wayne
The Yes Album – Yes
Going for the One – Yes
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends – The Complete First Season
Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends – The Complete Second Season

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