When I arrived home from work late this this evening my father was on the phone, standing by the kitchen table. Unusually, he interrupted his conversation to greet me. He then told me that a friend was killed in a plane crash, before returning to his conversation.
According to the statistics… there are apparently some people (or ‘bots’) out there consuming my site content – mainly the gallery. For example, 1797 pageviews on Wednesday, or 0.2GB of traffic, but only 8 ‘unique’ visitors. Other days range from a few to several hundred pageviews, but not over 8 unique visitors in any day. [...]
Not just one. Not even two. Three. And a bit. count ‘em! One!.. order of magnitude. Ah-ah. Two!.. orders of magnitude. Ah-ah. Three!.. Three orders of magnitude! Ah-ah! Orders of what, you ask? Space. Not to move, but maybe to ‘grow’. I’ve been long suffering with disk space issues – Windows telling me that volume [...]
This isn’t about the usual, Hollywood (et al) violence in film, but about violence found even in an ‘academic’ setting, in this case, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University. And no, this is also not about horrendous events such as “the deadliest shooting rampage in US history” (US university shooting kills 33 [...]