Wednesday, June 8th, 2005


I found an error on Whereis.com, or rather, a couple of errors.

The first one I’m happy to let slide - they only recently changed the northern end of Pondham Road, Hynam to be Schinckel Road. The other one I’m not so happy with:

Check the travel time. It does not take 38 minutes to drive down the road that the Meatworks is on!

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I can’t quite remember how I came up with the title of this blog, but I know it had something to do with “The World According to Garp”, which I remembered as “Life According To Garp”. I’m glad I got it wrong, because there is another site with the title The World According To Matt.

I did a bit of a look, and he started it well before I started mine, so I’m going to do the honourable thing and come up with a new title.

I might go by a Google Search referer I got today: Monkey Female Names According To Matt.

Doesn’t quite have the ring I’m after…

Here’s my top options:

  • I don’t like your trousers
  • Barely Respectable, Rarely Bespectacled
  • Mistaken at the top of my voice
  • hateful AND boring
  • Paint the Tiger/Carve the Swan
  • Afterisms (Inc)

Vote for which one you like most in the comments.

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I regularly check my Referers list in the WP backend - it’s interesting to see who has visited my site, or rather, where they came from.

I really like a couple of features - especially how it points out Google referers. It struck me as a useful way to see how my site ranks in terms of Google searches. A couple of terms return a page from my site as the first hit.

For example: Google: probability of our existence

This in itself is interesting - and it’s accurate. The post in question is about the Probability of our Existence.

But more interesting is what people have searched on, found my site and visited about, where the topic is not quite right. To increase user satisfaction, I could write posts about what they were searching for initially.

For example:

  • How to rate song with itunes
  • Old postsecret posts
  • Easiest way to resize pictures
  • 1 itunes library for multiple users
  • resizing the length of songs in itunes

The thing I think is most interesting is that most of my hits come from searches for sudoku - and I only ever wrote one post on it!

(And it doesn’t really tell how to solve them…but details how I wrote a program to solve them.)

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