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I decided to publish this months stats for my site. I need some help deciphering it...also for future reference and for monitoring other sites, so any tips are greatly welcomed.

Bandwith Total 549.20 Meg

Total Hits 11187
Total Files 9081
Total Pages 3486
Total Visits 2068
Total KBytes 58801
Total Unique Sites 601
Total Unique URLs 453
Total Unique Referrers 155
Total Unique User Agents 106

Here's one for Mike and all you Cali-folks.

A chicken fined $54 for illegally crossing a road in California has had the charge thrown out by a court.

The fine was dismissed after a lawyer for the bird's owners argued that the fowl was domesticated and could not be classified as livestock.

California law bans livestock from highways, but not domestic animals.

Linc and Helena Moore had been fined on 26 March after their chicken wandered onto a road in the small rural mining town of Johannesburg in Kern county.

They were warned by their lawyer that if the bird continued to cross the road unattended they could face a minor misdemeanour infraction, the Daily Independent newspaper reported.

Continue reading " US chicken ducks jaywalking ... »

By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
Original article.

Every year or so I like to see how Microsoft is doing in its attempt to make a desktop operating system as usable as Linux. Microsoft Windows XP, Home Edition, with Service Pack 2, is a tremendous improvement over previous Windows versions when it comes to stability and appearance, but it still has many glitches that keep it from being competitive with GNU/Linux for everyday users, including a tedious installation procedure, lack of productivity software included with the operating system, hardware compatibility problems, and a price so much higher than any of the Linux distributions I've tested lately that I don't feel this product is a good value for most home or small office users.

Continue reading "Windows rapidly approaching ... »

In this article (Next for BitTorrent: Search ), it talks about current issues with Bit Torrent, and it leagal problems.

The Pirate Bay, a torrent aggregator in Sweden known for making pirated movies, music and software freely available in open defiance of publishers.

I checked out The Pirate Bay, and had a really good laugh at the email correspondence between the company and the lawers and representatives of vareous international firms, and their legal threats. Take a look.

On Saturday afternoon around 3:10, someone came rushing in my room saying that Darren (4 yrs.) had fallen out the window down to the balcony, over three meters (10 ft.). He was laying face down, and a small pool of blood was forming around his face. We were praying for him and discussing calling the ambulance, when he came too and started crying and after a moment rolled over on his back (of his own accord). I felt that it was ok for us to move him and I carried him to the car, and someone else drove us to the hospital that was less then 15 minutes away. Continue reading "Simply put, A Miracle" »