March 2006 Archives

Tonight I noticed that there was an upgrade available for my guestbook script. So, thinking it couldn't take long, I decided to install it. However, the "Black Sunrise" skin I use wasn't working with it, one thing led to another, and I ended up accidentally deleting the whole guestbook database. Luckily there's a Google cache of the entire guestbook. So, after some manual copy and pasting I can restore it soon. I've got more important things to do right now though, so it could take a day or two.

This is not the first time a "minor" upgrade has caused me panic at the midnight hour. See "23 Hours of Panic" from last summer.

In other news, my site had it's 50,000th visitor (since April 1, 2000) tonight... Someone from Englishtown, New Jersey.

It's about time I mention my spring break. Mike and I are doing a little tour of Denmark and Sweden. Here's the more-or-less completed schedule, that took us awhile to decide upon:

Friday, March 10: Drive down to Newark Liberty Airport and fly SAS to Copenhagen
Saturday: Arrive in Copenhagen
Tuesday: Take the train over to Malmö, Sweden, rent a car, and drive to Stockholm
Friday, March 17: Drive to Gothenburg
Saturday: Drive back to Malmö and take the train back to Copenhagen
Sunday: Fly back to Newark and drive back to Syracuse

Unique Visitors: 6497 (New Record)
Number of Visits: 10872 (New Record)
Pages: 29715 (5th Place)
Hits: 96483 (7th Place)
Bandwidth: 2.65 GB (2nd Place)
Top Photo: DSC02637 from "New Year's Eve" (36 Views, Pictured)
Top Countries: United States, Austria, Australia, Great Britain, Sweden

February was a pretty decent month for newkai.com, thanks to a great increase in visitors that find my site through Google. Considering I hardly added any photos last month, the results are great.

The increase in Google traffic can be seen in the first two figures above, which both represent new records since my current statistics software began tracking in December 2004. Bandwidth (data transfered) came in second, most likely still fueled by the new videos I added in January.

Pages and hits could not keep up at all because of the lack of new photos. Each photo is located on a separate page, which drives those statistics up.

Speaking of photos, last month's most-visited photo, DSC02637, was not unseated, being viewed 36 unique times, not including its views on this weblog.

The most visited sections of my website were AIS2002.COM, followed by my weblog, KaiCams, photos, and videos.

Google's index of my website dropped from 951 to 724 pages. Currently the most searched-for phrase that leads Googlers to my site is depressing lyrics, followed by IB sucks and 18th birthday party.