I can see forever
I started my big imageToSpectrogram test on Monday, here it is exactly 3 days later and it's only at 53% :p. Hopefully after this weekend it will be done.
Also, surprise surprise, I'm really busy again. The main application I built at work is getting picked up for other projects, so I've been running around supporting that, plus doing my normal work, plus keeping up my funding. It is the first program I ever really did a 'design' for, if you couldn't guess I usually just hack until something works, which always bites me in the ass if the project gets much bigger than a couple KSLOC. The first time this happened was this DB project for university, also coincidently this was shortly after when I first started blogging.
Speaking of online writing, I've noticed the vast majority of people who come to my site do so looking for information on the terrible iMac fan noise. My old blog still gets a ton more hits, I assume because Google links it multiple places, and increases the pagerank. I have done nothing to get any traffic to devrand, except any post I make on my old blog I point here, mainly to avoid retyping. I'm really cheap and don't want to pay if I start getting more hits.
According to Google analytics, the bulk of my traffic is spiders, followed by iMac G5 people, and everything else roughly tied with friends, family, and myself(Yes I can spot you in the logs:). People who actually contact me either have questions about replacing iMac fans, solenoids(WTF?), and PIC programming.
There is also a large amount of people from India who contact me with bizarre questions about code on the site (How do you run something, will it handle x, etc.). I also get the same thing from Youtube. My guess is they are taking the code for use in outsourced code or maybe school projects, I'm on the fence whether or not to completely ban all India based IPs. The interesting thing is the very low degree of technical knowledge the questioners seem to have(Can you give an example of running something in Java), and it scares me to think these maybe outsourced programs that I may one day use for banking, health care, etc. This isn't to say that there aren't alot of other horrible coders out there, just that it brings it more to my attention.
Comments(1) 
2009-04-30 14:07:29
(2009-04-30 15:13:36) Chris Wellons said:
Most of my website's hits are from search engines (Google mainly) with variousprogramming queries. A lot of the time it is for stuff I don't really directly
have, but I do have two unrelated posts. Like, "brainfuck mandelbrot". I have
some brainfuck stuff, and I have some Mandelbrot stuff, but they are completely
unrelated.
You should occasionally get a little bit of trickle traffic from me since I have
some links to you. Not that I have much traffic to forward along anyway. Looking
at older blogs' archives' comments, it seems it take 2 or 3 years of regular
blogging (at several hundred posts) to get some sort of regular audience.
Gavin said: "The interesting thing is the very low degree of technical
knowledge the questioners seem to have"
That's exactly the same impression I get from my poor-English, Indian
questioners. They want to use my code, and are in a big hurry (they say
"urgent" and "as soon as possible" a lot), but from their questions it seems
they have no idea what they're doing. Or they try, with excessively polite
words, to get me to do their work for them: "Sir Can u please code this in c?
Please kindly, oblige my request".
Hopefully they are just students, but that also means they're probably cheating
on their homework.
PS. Your quotes are still all broken.
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