Archive for July, 2006

Hiding from the World

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Or more importantly, holed up at home while I slog through my doctoral proposal in preparation for my preliminary exam in a couple of weeks. So I really haven’t had much to post about, or the time to even think of posting. When I do get a moment you might hear about: Floyd Landis’ amazing [...]

100 Miles on a Bike

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

I find it’s easier to motivate to workout when I have a goal. To this end, I signed up for the Sea Gull Century. Held this year on October 7 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the Sea Gull has the reputation of being the flattest century in America. Even better, the next day there’s an (optional) [...]

Subtle Changes

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Kate‘s comment last week regarding content “above the fold” reminded me of my posts from last year on making an impact in less than 30 seconds and tools for more effective blogging. I realized that I hadn’t evaluated my own blogs in the intervening 18 months since I wrote those posts. Much to my surprise, [...]

Blogging Proposition Results

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Some results from my little experiment yesterday. Based on the web server logs we had: 87 users come in from traffic exchanges 19 Blog Clicker visitors 39 Blog Mad visitors 36 Blog Explosion visitors Apparently, 7 users are using multiple exchanges. In total, we had 14 comments from visitors arriving through the traffic exchanges which [...]