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PAX 2008

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I just bought my PAX 2008 tickets, for all three days. Anyone else going who reads CR? Would be fun to meet any of the CR faithful :)
If you fancy meeting up at PAX leave a message on here or use the contact form and let me know.
If you have no idea what PAX is [...]

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Tags: CreationRobot · Games · Personal

Operating Systems and Browsers of users coming to CR

March 11th, 2008 · No Comments

CR gets OK readership, over 2.5k unique hits a day, serving almost 5000 pages (using wp-cache) which amounts to 200MB bandwidth a day and 33k hits. So what OS and browsers statistics can I pull from these figures? It breaks down like this:
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Windows 259428 78.4 %
Macintosh 55468 16.7 %
Unknown 10909 3.2 %
Linux 4172 1.2 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 466 0.1 %
Symbian OS 71 0 %
BSD 45 0 %
Sun [...]

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Tags: Blog Tech · CreationRobot · Links · Personal

On a course for a few days

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Back to the posting tomorrow.
Also have a professional exam coming up so need to spend some time revising that. And fast. Eep.
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Your Eyes Don’t Lie

February 21st, 2008 · No Comments

If you want to know what someone is really thinking you watch their eyes. Here’s a quick and dirty guide on what people’s eyes are revealing:
Straight Eye contact. Consistent eye contact is a sign that the person is interested in the conversation. Prolonged eye contact can mean that the person is trying to intimidate and/or [...]

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How to write a blog - the 5 golden rules of blogging

January 25th, 2008 · No Comments

What is a blog? What should a blog be? What’s your blog’s point?
Well one of the original bloggers, Jorn Barger, gives his views in this Wired article. Some of his points I agree with, some don’t make sense and take the power and bite out of the collective production and sway of the blog.
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Bizarre Phone Call: I’m apparently Dave

January 10th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m at work and my blackberry rings. It’s only the second time that is has ever done that, I use it primarily for email. So I’m thrown off a little even before I press accept.
The background noise is very high, it sounds like a party or a crowd at an airport. Echoing laughter, lots of [...]

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About Me: Stuff you don’t need to know

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Results for 7th March 1973 :
You were born on a Wednesday.
Your star sign is Pisces.
The season was Winter.
You are 34 years, 10 months, 2 days old.
It is 58 days until your next Birthday.
You are 12,726 days old.
You are approximately 305,445 hours old.
You are approximately 1,099,603,247 seconds old.
And even more…
See here.

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Supercat: The Ashera

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

OK so I’m a rabid cat person. I like cats and I own a Maine Coon; formally the largest domestic cat in the world. A title now owned by the Ashera. I so want one of these, the price is beyond the budget of tiny wee CreationRobot.

The Ashera is a domestic/wild hybrid cat, a hybrid [...]

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Tags: Cats · Consumerism · CreationRobot