Month: January 2009

I recently discovered that my ISP provides handy statistics about the internet traffic to my house. Here, as a historical curiosity, are the figures for 2008:

As background, we don’t make use of P2P for content that the original owners aren’t happy distributing, so I imagine there are heavier users of the net out there. We do use Miro though, so I imagine a fair amount of that traffic is video. The peak in October certainly is (I watched Democracy Now during the US election), and I imagine that was what Jan and Feb were too.

The eagle eyed, or keen, reader might have noticed that most pages on this site have a date on them, often at the bottom of the page. This is automatically generated, and reflects the last time the page changed in any way.

One date, however, I update by hand. On the site’s about page, you will find a copyright notice, together with a year range. This I update manually, once a year.

I’ve considered automating it a few times (it would be trivial) but I like it – as a signal that I’m still maintaining this site, and it is not quietly bitrotting away.

It looks like I’ve done this 14 times now.

Happy New Year!