because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 25th, 2010
Since December 2005 I have been using Mint to track my web site statistics. Out of the box it provides a good look at who is coming to your site, how frequently, and to which pages. Better still, Mint is extensible through plugins called Peppers. Pepper-mint, get it? Periodically the base package and or some [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 24th, 2010
Fourteen years ago, on February 20, 1996, I registered my first Internet domain. This site has existed in one form or another ever since. In a real sense this site has been a constant in an ever shifting world. The nearly 1600 entries here cover all of the major changes in my life, and the [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 9th, 2009
Four years ago, on December 5th, 2005, I installed Mint on my domain host and started accurately tracking visits to my site. This morning at about 7:30 am the 50,000th page was served to the 26,620th unique visitor. Obviously my little personal site is way out on the power curve of the World Wide Web, [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Sep 28th, 2009
Like a lot of bloggers I tend to write erratically and about topics that are of interest to me. Sometimes my topics strike a chord with the blog reading public and I generate lots of page views and gain new regular readers. Toward that end I am experimenting with a suggestion service. Click on the [...]
Posted in life, nerdliness on Sep 21st, 2009
My first Internet email account was with AOL around March 1993. This was soon followed by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) account in late 1994. In February 1996 I acquired this domain and had my first domain email address. I still have that address, although I don’t use it actively any more. Like a lot [...]
Posted in life, nerdliness on Aug 8th, 2009
As I sat down this evening to start a posting about the CARS program, I discovered that the last posting I made was the 1600th on zanshin.net. I no longer have a word count on the site, so I’ve lost track of the words I’ve written here, but I believe it was well north of [...]
Posted in life, nerdliness on Feb 19th, 2009
Zanshin.net will be thirteen years old tomorrow. I know that when I first got the domain I never imagined I would still be actively hosting a web site more than a decade later. The oldest blog postings go back to December 1999, so I’ve been archiving my life for almost a decade here. Happy Birthday, [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 6th, 2008
Three years ago, on December 5th, I installed Mint for the first time. Since that time it has recorded 26,000 plus page views and almost 15,000 visits to my humble site. Along the way I have added and taken away various peppers, and I upgraded to version 2.0 this past year. Mint has worked flawlessly [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Nov 12th, 2008
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a website called mydogmeg. One of the features was a sub-domain filled with links to technical sites. The layout was simple and effective, and when mydogmeg went off the air I grabbed a copy of the geek sub-domain from the Internet Archives. For a long [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Oct 31st, 2008
My little site has had 25,001 page views since December 2005, from 14,137 unique visits. A tiny amount compared to the tens of thousands of visits some sites register daily, but significant to me. Thank you to everyone who visits regularly, and welcome to any one new.