etc.

Crazy authors’ names demystified.

After 12 consecutive months of bother with a sham ISP (I haven’t kept up but it looks like they’re back in business, buyer beware), I have to say that these past 3 months with a decent, dependable provider have been a pleasure. It’s nice not to have to go days at a time with intermittent mail delivery and server malfunctions.

Apart for dependability and practically 100% up-time, another upshot of hosting with DreamHost is their deliciously detailed log files. I would read these log files over my web stats everytime, they’re the real goods when it comes to what goes on around here when I’m not looking (which is most of the time). Some averages recently discovered:

Most of these came as no surprise, the one exception was the high number of daily reads on the bibliolatry feed. I’ve had an ongoing love-hate relationship with aggregators ever since one in particular chewed up and spat out my hard drive last year, so it still boggles the mind to think that people depend on them for their daily content.