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The story of pow
Jan. 12th, 2005 12:42 pmSo this is my first entry in a while and, sorry, but I'm not going to talk about Katherine. (she turned 1 last Monday, and there was cake and a multitude of relatives and cameras, and maybe I'll post a Katherine update later today)
Instead, I'm going to talk about stuff I found in the webserver log.
Recently (late last week) I cleaned out my old account at the Johns Hopkins Math department. Among the other things I did was to drop a little Redirect directive in the .htaccess file there to point to my my current web home. This means that requests for files that used to be in my math.jhu.edu account are now bounced automatically to my snowplow.org account.
As I never had access to the webserver logs on math.jhu.edu, I never knew if my pages were being looked at, or, if so, which pages were popular, in terms of being linked to from other places. Well, as I've now found out apparently the most interesting thing in my old web account (in terms of hits) was this stupid image. That's right, it's just a "POW!" with a border around it. I'm not even sure when or why I made it - playing around in gimp, I suspect.
So now I get to see from the logs what pages link to that image, and it's a little bizarre how it's spread. Below I give the referrer and the first time the snowplow.org logs see someone looking for pow.png from that page: (not necessarily when requests started, since I don't see what went to math.jhu.edu) (All times Eastern Standard Time)
"Pow" gets around. (I omitted other google image searches which found it, such as "POW", "Pow", and "pow!") It also probably points to the idea that "most links to" is not necessarily a good measure of "most interesting", "most valuable", or "most useful". Or maybe I'm just deluding myself about the usefulness of anything else I've ever put up on the web.
Instead, I'm going to talk about stuff I found in the webserver log.
Recently (late last week) I cleaned out my old account at the Johns Hopkins Math department. Among the other things I did was to drop a little Redirect directive in the .htaccess file there to point to my my current web home. This means that requests for files that used to be in my math.jhu.edu account are now bounced automatically to my snowplow.org account.
As I never had access to the webserver logs on math.jhu.edu, I never knew if my pages were being looked at, or, if so, which pages were popular, in terms of being linked to from other places. Well, as I've now found out apparently the most interesting thing in my old web account (in terms of hits) was this stupid image. That's right, it's just a "POW!" with a border around it. I'm not even sure when or why I made it - playing around in gimp, I suspect.
So now I get to see from the logs what pages link to that image, and it's a little bizarre how it's spread. Below I give the referrer and the first time the snowplow.org logs see someone looking for pow.png from that page: (not necessarily when requests started, since I don't see what went to math.jhu.edu) (All times Eastern Standard Time)
| a google image search for "pow" | 07/Jan/2005:13:58:44 |
| user profile at http://www.myspace.com/ | 07/Jan/2005:14:28:18 |
| http://cactokaur.blog.com/ (in Spanish) | 07/Jan/2005:17:19:34 |
| http://boards.theforce.net/ Revenge of the Sith discussion | 07/Jan/2005:17:43:52 |
| The freepers use "pow" too | 07/Jan/2005:21:28:24 |
| Something on driven2modify.com | 08/Jan/2005:00:24:55 |
| Blog for "kasha_teishu" on xanga.com | 08/Jan/2005:02:08:30 |
| http://maroc-chat.de/forum-thread-539--.html | 08/Jan/2005:09:40:40 |
| a post on www.blackcatbone.34sp.com | 08/Jan/2005:14:25:15 |
| a post on forum.surfermag.com | 08/Jan/2005:17:08:31 |
| sealiontavern.nobledead.com | 11/Jan/2005:12:07:06 |
| Another xanga.com blog (PermitaSer) | 11/Jan/2005:18:29:53 |
| an old xanga.com blog post (warning: background music and probably NSFW) | 11/Jan/2005:20:38:19 |
| A post (currently unreachable) on gaiaonline.com | 11/Jan/2005:23:02:53 |
| Someone's hotmail email | 12/Jan/2005:10:01:28 |
| ekok.nl post | 12/Jan/2005:10:49:51 |
"Pow" gets around. (I omitted other google image searches which found it, such as "POW", "Pow", and "pow!") It also probably points to the idea that "most links to" is not necessarily a good measure of "most interesting", "most valuable", or "most useful". Or maybe I'm just deluding myself about the usefulness of anything else I've ever put up on the web.