I’ve had a lot on my mind recently, and as a side effect, this site has been neglected somewhat. I’m going to keep checking in regularly though, even if I don’t have a whole lot to say.
Call for Tutorials
Chic’s VB Array tutorial continues to do well on google, so I figured I’d ask if anyone else wanted to write a tutorial on a certain subject (something with a similar format). I may write one myself, but I’m not sure what topic I should pick.
How people find patorjk.com
I found the following table from Google Webmaster Tools amusing (format = % of queries, search term, page rank):
Top clicked queries
The top search queries from which users clicked through to your site.
%: % of top queries
# % Query Position
1. 63% text art 3
2. 15% ascii art generator 7
3. 3% sarah michelle gellar 152
4. 3% visual basic arrays 6
5. 2% art text 2
6. 2% visual basic array 8
7. 2% kurt cobain 220
8. 1% color fader 4
9. 1% artistic text 3
10. 1% sarah michelle geller 97
11. 1% ascii art 58
12. 1% slim shady 120
13. 1% patorjk 1
14. 1% beep sound in vb 6.0 4
15. 1% ascii generator 16
16. 1% britney spears 777
17. 0% ascii art arial font 4
18. 0% ascii art text 5
19. 0% ascii art text generator 5
20. 0% “ascii art generator” 7
Apparently mentioning a celebrity will get you visitors. I mean, I’m listed as the 777th page for the term “Britney Spears”, yet someone still found me via that search phrase. I’m assuming these people are finding this page though, since I don’t normally mention Britney Spears in this blog.
Be sure to put at least 10% of your salary away for a down-payment on a home in a couple years and another 10%-20% in retirement. Never rent more than your salary minus the above.
When’s the housewarming?
I’m not sure when we’ll do a house warming, we’ll definitely do something though. We don’t move in until the first, and David defends his thesis the week after that, so it’ll probably be mid-December. I’ll keep you posted though.