Outrageous Malfunction

Sebastian writes that a link from Huffpo is worth about five hits; a link from Brady is worth about one. My most popular non-Raymond Chen posts are all of the “how to hard reset a device” variety. How to hard reset a Touch Dual is worth from 50-60 hits a day. How to hard reset an HTC Touch is worth 30-40 hits a day. Zune 2 hard reset? 10-20. ipaq 110 classic hard reset is worth 5-10 (this means every owner is hard reseting every day, and forgetting how to do so! Ha! Ha!). These aren’t one-day hits; for the leaderboard there, it’s all Raymond Chen.

Raymond Chen is worth more residual traffic (20 hits a day) than Instanpundit, Say Uncle, or Joe (all at ~0 residual hits). A link from Chen is worth a couple thousand hits in a few hours (right around 0700). A link from Glenn is worth a thousand or so hits over a few more hours. A link from Uncle, while gratifying, is hidden by the daily fluctuation of “Touch Dual” hits. A link from Joe is about 1/3rd an Uncle; however, since Joe is close to me on many axis, I suspect we share subscribers.

To put some scale to this, a link from Instapundit has 0 residual and is worth about 1/4 of a link from Chen initially (about half the hits over about twice the timespan).

Huffpo would rank up there on my all-time hits for Aluminum Foam. An article with one hit, ever? Area 29 Snomobile Maps.

Because I hate that every scandal is post-fixed with “gate” and every expression of link love is a “-lanche”, I propose a new unit for directed unique user visits: the Raymond, which I define as 2,674 uniques per hour.

My sister Leah notes that she’s been at this blogging thing for four solid years now. Sadly, my use of this software only goes back to June of 2003; the way back machine captures some earlier goofing around with a date of 27 April 2003. I had a blog-like thing on my web page back on 19 Aug 2000. My guess is I’ll never be able to sleuth a year, much less a date, where I started blogging; like the woman that’s perpetually 39 or the income bracket that is 100k+, I’ll forever be without a real number to mark. With that, I’ll note that every day is my anniversary; I’ll tool around in the warm glow of sharing this date with my sisters - both of them - and with everyone else that blogs, as well. Happy anniversary, Leah!

Joe has noted that stuff on the internet comes to my attention quickly. I’d like to
take credit for it, but I’ve been using Google Alerts to do the dirty work.

Blogs by bouncers, waiters, and Wal-Mart workers. Also Patrick Stack and WW I.

If you buy stuff from Audible, you’ll find it comes in the .aa format. The largest downside to Audible’s format is I cannot edit out the David Sedaris from my This American
Life collection. I found a forum post which I will reproduce here for posterity:

There exists no clear guide to add audible support to dbpoweramp, here is what I did:

1) Install dbpoweramp and the dbPowerAmp DirectShow plugin. When the install completes replace “.xyz” in the text file with “.aa” and save it.

2) Install AudibleManager AND Windows Media Player Filter (bottom of download page):http://www.audible.com/software

3) Run dBpowerAMP Configuration:

Start >> Programs >> dBpowerAMP Music Converter >> Configuration >> dMC Configuration (this step reads the config you edited in step 1)

That is it, dbpoweramp can read audible files and Sveta Portable audio can upload Audible files to portables that support it.

Now I’ll be able to do all of the stuff I want to my TAL collection.